Re: java RESTful web service

From:
Tom Anderson <twic@urchin.earth.li>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 9 Apr 2009 21:02:32 +0100
Message-ID:
<alpine.DEB.1.10.0904092101490.27156@urchin.earth.li>
On Wed, 8 Apr 2009, Arne Vajh?j wrote:

Wouter wrote:

On Apr 7, 3:38 am, Arne Vajh?j <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Wouter wrote:

On Apr 3, 4:32 pm, Wouter <wouterg...@gmail.com> wrote:

On Apr 3, 3:26 am, Arne Vajh?j <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Wouter wrote:

On Apr 2, 1:52 am, Arne Vajh?j <a...@vajhoej.dk> wrote:

Wouter wrote:

If a user logins at my application (with username and password) the
username and password would be sended to my
web service and checked if this is right?

Yes.

And how can i make this? It's my first time for developing a java web
service!

Web services are code just like any other code.
You will need a Java web container like Tomcat and you will
make life a lot easier for yourself by using a toolkit like
restlet instead of handcoding a servlet.

I have already created a web service with reslet and this is a great
framework!
I am now trying to let it work with a database (jdbc)

What do you prefer to use for the database?
Object Database (db4o) or xml Database or jdbc (mysql)?

I would go for a regular relational database.

Like MySQL.

But there are also other.


How can i make a login webservice with mysql?


A login web service is like any other web service call.

But login is not RESTful.


HTTP and SSL authentication are perfectly compatible with rest. They're
orthogonal to it.

You should check in each call.


That's exactly how HTTP or SSL authentication works.

tom

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