Chapter 1. Implementing and Consuming Your First Service
In the grand tradition of programming books beginning with a “hello, world” example, this book starts off with a simple service. This chapter walks through the creation of a service to store user metadata and manage authentication. This includes building the web service to handle HTTP requests and the client library for interacting with the service.
What’s a Service?
In this book, service generally refers to a system that responds to HTTP requests. Such HTTP requests are usually to write, retrieve, or modify data. Examples of public-facing HTTP services include Twitter’s API (http://apiwiki.twitter.com), the Amazon S3 service (http://aws.amazon.com/s3/), the Delicious API (http://delicious.com/help/api ...
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