Re: Web services 101

Hi Alan, Anne,

On 02/08/2014 11:35 PM, Anne Ogborn wrote:
> Hope you won't think it immodest, but I'd suggest my web app tutorial.
> 
> http://www.pathwayslms.com/swipltuts/html/index.html

Good reading stuff.  As we've seen many people struggling how to get
started and what is around, I've compiled a FAQ entry.  It became more
like a whitepaper, so at some point we may decide to add a whitepaper
entry to the website (what do you think, Anne?).  Note that this new article
does by no means try to replace the tutorial.  It tries to position
SWI-Prolog webservices against other techniques, point at the various
functionalities provided by the various libraries, explain options and
features as well as strengths and weaknesses.

The page is at:  http://www.swi-prolog.org/FAQ/PrologLAMP.html

It is a wiki page, so feel free to extend it or comment on it.  You can
ask for wiki authoring rights.  See http://www.swi-prolog.org/wiki/
Of course, there is also this list for feedback.

	Cheers --- Jan

> 
> 
> It directly covers everything but 'logs on', and this is handled by starting a session
> and marking the user logged on in the session data after they supply credentials.
> There's support for OpenID but I'm no expert on using that.
> 
> For 99% of everything you can work locally. I'm writing an HTML5 mobile game right now 
> using this framework, and have only deployed it once, and that was to get lots of people to
> check something with lots of different mobile devices.
> 
> You do need to have clean URI's to work locally. By 'clean' I mean relative uri's, preferably generated from
> location_by_id or some such to deabstract them. But this is good practice anyway. It's covered in the 
> tutorial.
> 
> The tutorial uses of a bunch of one page servers to demonstrate various concepts. All can be
> run locally. (I believe there's an exercise in the latter part that is, essentially 'move to a real server',
> obviously that one can't be).
> 
> Your ordinary lamp server will need SWI-Prolog installed. Many applications don't use a relational
> database. If you choose to use one you'll need it installed, obviously, and you'll need ODBC connection.
> 
> If you need access to a server that fits those criteria, let me know offline.
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