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Understand "Web Services"
The World Wide Web is more and more used for application to application communication. The programmatic interfaces made available are referred to as Web services.
(see also: w3.org )
Web services - as a general term - means offering applications to many business partners and integrating these applications into their Web sites.
But both partner must run special web server software. this server software must understand special network protocolls like XML, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI and must have special gateways.
Learn more about the benefits of "Classic Web Services" and Application Syndication:
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/tech/2002/0204tech.html
General integration of HTML based applications for mass syndication is not possible - correction: was not possible!
The common problem
Example:
Think of a webmaster who wants to show an image gallery (aka photo album) on one of his pages. He has the following opportunities:
- ask his provider for the standard script on his account or server.
- installing a script (programm)
- using an external service like bravenet.com
- ask his agency/programmer to install one
All these opportunities are time consuming and may be cost intensive - and all have nothing to do with syndication.
Webmaster who have accounts without e.g. PHP or Perl (scripting languages) are not able to use an interactive image gallery at all.
The solution
We talking about internet application to application communication.
In our case we let the webserver application (application client) communicate with another webserver application (application server) to show the application running on the syndication server on the other server using standard http protocoll.
The application client may show the application to the visitor on the website.
The webmaster must only embedd some lines of PHP or _javascript to his web page: the embedlet code.
The result
A visitor to the embedlet enabled page will see the original content of the site plus the seamlessly embedded content from the syndication server: an image gallery or any other web application or web content.
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