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

Web Services

How to convert Office documents to PDF with Microsoft…

Contents App Registration Permissions Download as a PDF Project Setup File Service Putting it all together This tutorial aims to create a service that...
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

What is a Microservice?

If the term Microservice is new to you then chances are that you’re thinking the same thing that went through my mind when I...
Leon Atherton
1 min read

Top 10 Open Source Java and JavaEE Application Servers

At IDR Solutions we make use of a Open Source Java Application Server called Glassfish to run our free PDF to HTML5 Converter. I...
Alex Marshall
6 min read