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

Web Services

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

Choosing a Java Application Server

As you maybe aware of recently Oracle has stopped commerical support for future releases of the Glassfish server. You can read the official announcement...
suda
1 min read

WebSocket: Multiple Users, Encoders, Decoders and Dogs.

In my previous tutorial, we were left with a WebSocket server endpoint which bounced back our message. In this tutorial I will show you...
Simon Lissack
5 min read

Web Services: Exception Handling

In my previous article, I showed you how to create a simple web service and deploy it. In this article I’ll show you the...
Simon Lissack
1 min read