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Administering ArcGIS for Server

By : Hussein Nasser
Book Image

Administering ArcGIS for Server

By: Hussein Nasser

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Administering ArcGIS for Server
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Web services' protocols


You may have noticed from the service you authored that it is up to you how you want to format the result. Imagine if each developer used his own format, it would be really difficult for other parties to consume your service without knowing its parameters. Therefore, a set of protocols were compiled and widely provided. We will talk about the importance of using a standard format and how much time it can save during integration.

The importance of a standard format

With the magnitude of flexibility in this age of information, we started to create so many diverse works. Isaac Newton started an excellent standard by which he could aggregate his work and present it properly to the world. He created Calculus, which is a unified language for the entire world; mathematicians adopted his approach of doing math because it was simple and effective. They came up with interesting theories based on that adaptation. Calculus was a standard, a protocol that has succeeded. Einstein...