June 2005
Beginner to intermediate
372 pages
10h 1m
English
Content preview from Web Mapping IllustratedBecome an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Chapter 12. Accessing Maps Through Web Services
While publishing maps to the traditional Web for human consumption is definitely one of MapServer's most attractive features, you may also want to share your data so that other programs can use it. To do this, you'll likely want to take advantage of web services. Ethan Cerami gives a good definition of a web service in the introduction to his book Web Services Essentials (O'Reilly):
A web service is any service that is available over the Internet, uses a standardized XML messaging system, and isn't tied to any one operating system or programming language.
Similarly, Venu Vasudevan in his A Web Services Primer, defines a web service as "XML plus HTTP." See http://webservices.xml.com/pub/a/ws/2001/04/04/webservices/index.html.
The term web service typically refers to an Internet communication protocol between applications. Web services are built on the standard web HTTP protocol used for web browsing. HTTP is the transfer protocol coupled with XML as a communication language. These communication specifications allow the Internet to act as a communication network between applications—not just as a service for sharing web pages.
Web services are important because they play the integral part of interoperability between applications which were developed independently of each other and yet are able to communicate. The web services standards are independent of programming languages, operating systems, and platforms. They provide a standardized ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.