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RFID Essentials
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RFID Essentials

by Bill Glover, Himanshu Bhatt
January 2006
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
278 pages
12h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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RFID INFORMATION SERVICE 183
The service codes are as follows:
PML
This method is used to obtain Physical Markup Language (PML) documents about a
product.
HTML
This service returns a URI that will resolve to static web content. This method can be
used to access a web site that contains existing product information. An application
would get this information from the RFID integration server and would typically display
the contents of this page using a web browser.
XMLRPC
The URI returned by this service will resolve to a server capable of responding to XML-
RPC requests. An application would call methods on this server by POSTs containing
XML similar to the example below:
<methodCall>
<methodName>someservice.somemethod</methodName>
<params>
<param><value><string>some parameter</string></value></param>
</params>
</methodCall>
WS
This method is used to connect to a web service that can get detailed product tracking
information by calling public interfaces made available by manufacturers or distributors.
The RFID integration server in this case will receive a Web Service Definition Language
(WSDL) file that describes the aforementioned web service.
The EPC Information Services
The EPCIS is an upcoming EPCglobal standard whose goal is to enable disparate applications
to leverage EPC data via EPC-related data sharing, both within and across enterprises.
The EPCIS defines a standard interface for capturing and ...
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