About this book

This book guides you through installing VAST Web services with its associated features. It outlines how to build a Web service from a simple Smalltalk example. The User Guide describes the basic architecture of the Web services framework and covers how to take advantage of the pluggablity and extensibility built into the VAST Web services platform.

•For an overview of the Web services framework, read “Understanding Web Services”.

•To quickly create, deploy and invoke a Web service, look at the “Web Service in 10 Minutes Example” available in the Web Services feature.

•“Getting Started: Web services in an Hour” explains the Smalltalk code behind the face of the 10 minute example.

•Once you have the contours, “Getting Started: Web services in a Day” presents the variety of ways in which you might choose to represent the data exchanged via a web service.

•For ideas on how to customize and debug a Web serivce, check out the Cook Book.

Last modified date: 02/12/2021