A Web service is a method of communications between two electronic devices over a network.

Web Services

Creating a WordPress Plugin Part 3: Adding Shortcodes

Recently, I’ve been working on a proof of concept project which integrates our JPDF2HTML5 web service with the popular blogging platform WordPress. This series of...
Simon Lissack
1 min read

Creating a WordPress Plugin Part 2: Uploading Media and…

In my previous article I took a look at getting a basic admin panel to appear in the sample application. In this article, I...
Simon Lissack
1 min read

Creating a WordPress Plugin Part 1: Adding the Admin…

WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems on the internet. Created using PHP it can handle all things blogging to commercial websites. In...
Simon Lissack
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How to convert Office documents to PDF with Microsoft…

This tutorial aims to create a service that can be used to accurately convert Microsoft Office file formats into PDFs. The service works by...
Jacob Lucas
9 min read

How to enable GZIP Compression in Tomcat, Jetty, GlassFish…

GZIP Compression is a widely supported method of reducing the file size of the content hosted by your Java Application Server. This reduces bandwidth...
Leon Atherton
1 min read

REST vs. gRPC

When building a new web-based service, one of the inevitable questions that comes up is “How am I going to talk to it?” Do...
Rob
4 min read