Using Web Services for Customised Data Entry

ISBN-13: 9783639107722 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 116 str.

Yanbo Deng

Opis

Scientific databases often need to be accessed from avariety of different applications. There are usuallymany ways to retrieve and analyse data already in adatabase. However, it can be more difficult to loaddata from different sources and in a variety offormats (e.g. spreadsheets, other databases,statistical packages). This can cause users to wastea lot of time extracting, reformatting andre-entering data.This book focuses on developing a generic, platformindependent way to simplify the loading of databases.The approach uses Web services as middleware tosupply essential data management functionality suchas inserting, updating, deleting and retrieval ofdata. This functionality allows developers to easilycustomise data entry applications for local userrequirements, data sources and data formats (e.g.using VBA for Excel or J2ME for mobile applications). If you need to provide access to a shared databasefrom multiple customised client applications, thisbook will be of interest to you.

O autorze

Yanbo Deng completed his Masters of Applied Computing from
Lincoln University, New Zealand in 2007. He is currently
studying towards a PhD in Software and Information Technology at
Lincoln University. He has worked as an Information Systems
developer for the New Zealand Institute for Plant and Food Research.