Is there any framework I can Instal on windows azure and get a service similar to parse.com, AppMobi, kinvey etc.?
I would use this services to simplify my life, but if there was some reliable framework that I can put on windows azure and help me with all push notifications, and creating the rest API I would prefer it over kinvey or similar services because I can have control over.
Perhaps Azure Mobile Servicesis a little closer
There are a few examples you could leverage:
http://watwp.codeplex.com/
http://watgames.codeplex.com/
http://www.wadewegner.com/2011/08/windows-azure-toolkits-for-devices-now-with-android/
But I don't think they are quite the same as what you are referring to. But you could use these to build your own.
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I want to connect my Azure SQL (or external database) to my Microsoft MAUI App.
What is the best practice to achieve that?
I got an excellent response from Microsoft. I have been advised to use a web API that the client application interacts with. I have been advised to check the example of The .NET Podcasts application.
.NET Podcasts application in Github
Feel free to share If you have additional solutions
Try this way round:
For more info:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/introducing-dotnet-maui-one-codebase-many-platforms/
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/planning-new-scenarios-and-use-cases-for-azure-sql-database-local-development-experience/
We're developing a cloud based web application for customer management. One of the main goals i the capability to connect to different local applications on the customer endpoint.
As example, we don't want to have a customer database in out application, the customer should be able to search within his local ERP system right away.
What we need is not much. Only a client on the customers server with access to the local SQL server as well as the COM model.
But as webdevelopers and mainly going with PHP the question came up, what technology we should use?
I've got two approaches in mind:
NodeJS
Lightweight, Javascript and with the Express and winole32 extension we should have everything we need. But the deployment and installation as a service seems to be a bit wacky.
C# .Net Web API
Also a good approach I guess since the client servers are allways windows. But is there a way without IIS?
Or do you have something completely different in mind? It should be very fast and compact. So its basically just a RESTservice that can be deployed with ease.
Thanks for your inputs and thoughts.
C# .Net Web API Also a good approach I guess since the client servers are
allways windows. But is there a way without IIS
It is called OWIN and it is properly documented (web api self host is a good keyword) and works like a charm. Using that on various services to expose an API into the service.
I have a app and I need develop a restfull api to be used for this app.
Is liferay a valid option to develop this (using the service builder and persistence layer of liferay) to expose my service api to be used for the app?
I have in mind the performance and availability to this services.
what another option (to develop the api rest) i should consider for this purpose
Thanks
I expect for your replies.
Regards
Liferay can act as a rest server by service buider (I'm not sure it will support any RESTful operation, but only GET/POST).
By this way you can inherit the interesting features provided such as:
- users, roles and groups
- ready scalable platform
- hibernate+ehcache already configured
Ecc... by the other hand, it will bring a great burden to you... so in my mind, if you are interested to other Liferay native features, then you can use it.
On contrary, there are other ligther frameworks for achieving your needs (just think to Spring MVC, it can implement any other restful method, like so PUT/DELETE... and it is more configurable)... so in this case it will ask you to do a bit more work by hand... but you will not "fight" with a complex platform if it is not necessary.
(In the first hypothesis, don't forget to give an eye to the "Liferay Mobile SDK")
thanks for answer.
In fact, I am interested in use the features of liferay like users, groups, profiles, persistence layer and the web content to manager some resources in the app.
My question is thinking in the performance and scalability of the services layer for this app, if is factible use only liferay to expose all the service to the app need and if her performance will be appropriate.
regards.
I would like to write a client application for Android that uses the Google App Engine as a database backend. My Android client would connect to the App Engine to save information, then it would connect later for reports. Is it possible to use the App Engine as a backend like this?
If you're looking for something like the remote api that the App Engine has in python, then you'll be disappointed to find it missing in Java.
That said, absolutely nothing stops your from hitting your app and posting data either through POST / JSON / XML / any other format you can think of. The same thing goes for getting your reports back.
If security is a concern, the OAuth protocol allows you to authenticate to app engine from your android device.
This is an aside, but as far as reporting is concerned, you might not find the app engine a very suitable platform for reporting type apps. Just make sure you understand its limitations - the lack of joins, 1000 object limit, no sum / average, necessary indexes, etc. It's certainly not impossible, but do think carefully about how you're going to model your data.
Yes, it is possible.
Without more details in your question, any more details in the answer would be speculation.
Yes, its very much possible. It's something I am also currently working on.
My code uses HTTP GET and HTTP POST and I am using a RESTful service on the GAE.
I'm sorry I can't provide any code because I am still learning however the library I'm using is called RESTLET. They have libraries for both GAE and Android however I'm only using RESTLET on the GAE and I'm just using the HTTP library in the Android SDK for the client.
http://www.restlet.org/
The version you require is 2.0 M6 and not the stable release.
No.
In your response to Laurence, you said you want a direct DB connetion. A client cannot connect directly to the GAE datastore. You must write web handlers to interface between the client and your data. It doesn't have to be much, but it must be something.
Yes, it is very possible. You would not connect directly to the GAE database though. A better architecture would be to make your app hit a URL that writes to the DB. For example, you could set up a Struts 2 action that takes the values of your query parameters and then mutates and validates them as necessary before persisting them.
I have a Silverlight application that needs to retrieve some data from my database. This data is sensitive. Because of this, I only want my Silverlight application to be able to access the data. How do I ensure that only my applications can access the services that expose this data? Is there a way that I can validate a client attempting to retrieve the data?
Thank you!
These might be of interest:
Using ASP.NET Secure Services and Applications Services
Build Line-Of-Business Enterprise Apps With Silverlight, Part 2
MS Whitepaper: Security Guidance for Writing and Deploying Silverlight Applications
Well, everything your SL application does could be spoofed. So direct answer is NO, you cannot ensure that only your application will access to the data.
But there are number of options. For example you can implement authorization and then authenticate your user. In this way you can ensure that only users you trust access to the data.
Another option is to make spoofing harder. For example you can include sort of "secrete" token to all your requests. So other application will need to steal this token. This harder to achieve.
I think this question is more pertaining into implementing a web service or wcf service with authentication and authorization. If your service takes care of it, then you can be ensured about your data. Your silvelight app is just calling the service.
Whoever download the xap can decompress and reverse engineer your code, so your best bet is to build a web service as others suggested. Silverlight Ria ships with a full blown authentication membership that you can leverage.