Building ByFolio

I've gotten a number of inquiries on the framework behind this site, and how it was built.

To put it in concise technical terms, the ByFolio interface is an XML SOAP web service client written in JavaScript, and employing AJAX techniques. The web service itself was written in Java, using Axis2, running in the Tomcat6 servlet container.

I'm sure there are other folks out there that are also building production web applications on top of SOAP web services. I don't know of any, so if you do, I'd love to hear from you!

Now, for the actual story behind this approach, we'll have to go back to the motivations that had me looking at web services to begin with. You can read Part 1 of this story on my professional blog Standing on the Brink.

Posted at 11:11AM Mar 21, 2008 by Cory in Development  |  Comments[1]