Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of SPIDocs


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Sep 12, 2014 10:57:55 AM (10 years ago)
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    5252==== Delivering the SPI Through SOAP ====
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     54The SPI is built on the SOAP web services platform as a compromise between accessibility, extensibility, and support from tools.  An important goal of the SPI is to allow multiple applications to use the DETER testbed.  A web front-end for teaching cybersecurity classes that coexists with a web front end for experimenting on Internet anonymity are such a pair of applications.  That may even look like two different testbeds from the outside.
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     56To support that, the SPI must be platform independent.  A web browser is a powerful application platform that the SPI must support.  The SOAP/WSDL standards are a proven technology for such access.  SOAP may be somewhat stodgier than a JSON/REST interface, but the differences can be constrained to encodings, and many tools for generating SOAP interfaces provide migration paths to other web services platforms.
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     58Presently we take advantage of the fairly rich SOAP toolspace and have been able to use SOAP for access from a range of platforms from web browsers to multiple standalone programming languages.
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     60The rest of this document goes into more detail on how to use the SPI.
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