October 2017
Intermediate to advanced
442 pages
12h 33m
English
Most of today's synchronous communication within enterprise systems is realized via HTTP. Enterprise applications expose HTTP endpoints that are accessed by the clients. These endpoints are typically in the form of web services or web frontends as HTML over HTTP.
Web services can be designed and specified in various ways. In the simplest form, we just want to call a function of another system over the wire. That function needs to be specified with input and output values. These functions or remote procedure calls (RPC) are in this case realized over HTTP, typically using an XML format that specifies the parameter arguments. In the age of J2EE, these types of web services were pretty common. The most prominent ...
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