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Universal SOA API targeting any Client Device?

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Category: DevForce
Forum Name: DevForce 2010
Forum Discription: For .NET 4.0
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Printed Date: 26-Jan-2026 at 2:47pm


Topic: Universal SOA API targeting any Client Device?
Posted By: bap1
Subject: Universal SOA API targeting any Client Device?
Date Posted: 12-Jul-2011 at 7:58pm
due to the large explosion in smartphones and tablets etc.., we are considering developing a universal SOA API that can be implemented on any client device for our crm type application. The goal is to be client agnostic...it can be silverlight, wpf, asp.net/ajax, html5/ajax, iOS, android, blah blah blah... in these competitive times, we need to be super agile when the next cool device/trend comes along, allowing us to quickly develop a new client/solution that platform using our existing SOA API. can this be done with Devforce? With all the html5 rave going on...I don't see where you provide a rest/json type solution for any html/ajax/html5 clients. thanks in advance.


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Posted By: ting
Date Posted: 13-Jul-2011 at 2:19pm
Yes, you can do this with DevForce with our OData implementation, which is a cross-platform standard for querying entities.

You can learn more about OData here:
http://www.odata.org/ - http://www.odata.org/

OData can be consumed on most platforms as seen here:
http://www.odata.org/developers/odata-sdk - http://www.odata.org/developers/odata-sdk

We have an OData tutorial here:
http://drc.ideablade.com/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/odata-enable - http://drc.ideablade.com/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/odata-enable

And here is a customer that used DevForce's OData to build an iOS application:
http://drc.ideablade.com/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/code-sample-MEX-iOS - http://drc.ideablade.com/xwiki/bin/view/Documentation/code-sample-MEX-iOS



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