a remote procedure call (RPC) is a form of inter-process communication (IPC)
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What public APIs are provided by Governments to the public?
I stumbled across NOAA's SOAP Service and it got me thinking. What other eGovernment services are provided to Business and the general public by Governments? I know the United States has a lot APIs, but what about other governments like the…
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REST vs. RPC in PHP
I'm building my own Ajax website, and I'm contemplating between REST and RPC.
If my server supported Servlets I'd just install persevere and end the problem, but my server doesn't support Servlets.
RPC is simpler to code (IMO) and can be written in…
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exception in GWT RPC app
I am using GWT RPC & Hibernate to insert and retrieve data from MySQL using eclipse environment. I have written two methods in service interfaces to insert & retrieve data from a single MySQL table.
The program is running fine but it is raising this…
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What is the difference between Socket and RPC?
What is the actual difference between Socket and RPC (Remote Procedure Call)?
As per my understanding both's working is based on Client–server model. Also which one should be used in which conditions?
PS: Confusion arise while reading Operating…
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SOAP web services in Haskell?
I have to write a bunch of small web services. They must be defined by a WSDL and work via SOAP-RPC, in order to work with an existing workflow engine and service registry framework. I can, however, serve them on a service stack/platform of my…
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GWT RPC data format
How does the data format for Google Web Toolkits (GWT) RPC calls look and how are IsSerializable objects transmitted. I know that Java Serializable transmits some kind of binary format, but is this the case with GWT too? (Since I don't expect it to…
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Can protobuf service method return primitive type?
I'm trying to use Google protobuf and i 'm having the next descriptions:
message.proto file:
message Request {
required int32 id = 1;
optional string value = 2;
}
service.proto file:
import "message.proto";
service Service {
rpc request…
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Why does NFS use UDP by default?
I'm sure there's some ancient legacy reason for it, but what is it? It seems like a service that's geared towards reliable data delivery.
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How many Datastore reads consume each Fetch, Count and Query operations?
I'm reading on Google App Engine groups many users (Fig1, Fig2, Fig3) that can't figure out where the high number of Datastore reads in their billing reports come from.
As you might know, Datastore reads are capped to 50K operations/day, above this…
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In Node.js, how do I make one server call a function on another server?
Let's say I have 2 web servers. Both of them just installed Node.js and is running a website (using Express). Pretty basic stuff.
How can Server-A tell Server-B to execute a function? (inside node.js)
Preferably...is there a npm module for this…
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Log all network interactions of Java application
I have a monstrous Java app (a client of little-known application server GNUEnterprise) and its source, which I can compile back after making some changes to it. The app uses network heavily and I need to monitor each request and response. I could…
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What differentiates a REST web service from a RPC-like one?
I have a web application that uses AJAX to grab JSON data from the server. It requires that the user first log in with their browser so that a cookie can be set. Only the GET and POST verbs are used, where GET is for retrieving data and POST is for…
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TCP-based RPC server (Erlang or something similar?) for iOS/Android app communication
I'm building native mobile applications in both iOS and Android. These apps require "realtime" updates from and to the server, same as any other network-based application does (Facebook, Twitter, social games like Words with Friends, etc)
I think…
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What is the difference between gRPC and CORBA?
I have a reasonable experience in developing both SOAP and REST web services (in java platform). I am trying to understand the difference between the gRPC and CORBA in every aspect apart from the fact that both enables platform-neutral way of…
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what are the disadvantages of RPC with respect to message passing?
what are the disadvantages of RPC with respect to message passing?
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