Web Services

canalrun

canalrun

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Hello,
In my next project I would like to have a phone or tablet interface with Web data servers.

There are 2 sides to this problem; the android side, and the Web server side.

For the android side, obviously it's B4A. I see the HTTP and JSON libraries. These should be helpful.

Can anyone suggest other B4A libraries I will want to look at to communicate with Web services? I will want to do things like: send a command to the Web server to send back the member list from a web hosted database, or see how many visitors there were yesterday.

I would like to think of these as executing specific functions that are available rather than sending the actual database queries.

The second side is the Web server side. The Web server will have to listen for these commands, execute the function, then return the data.

I am sure this general scenario has been performed 1 million times. There must be software available to support this, but I don't know what it would be called. Does anyone know the correct name for this type of software or suggest a package for doing this?

Thanks,
Barry.
 
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canalrun

canalrun

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Excellent, thanks.

Does anyone know of generalized code or an application, maybe in PHP, that would act as a Web data server and respond to requests? I'm thinking about handling stuff like authentication and backend management tasks. My guess is that something like this exists, but I have no idea what it would be called – maybe "Web Data Service Builder"?

Thanks,
Barry.
 
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