There is more than just easy
webservices

All the boring stuff you will forget after the slides have passed

• Stefan Daugaard Poulsen
• @cyberzeddk
• AP in Computer Science
• Developer/Architect at Atea Denmark
• Currently working on Atea Tele
• .NET developer since 2002
• Silverlight developer back in 2011 with high use of WCF
• “Caught” in a discussion about webservices in November
2011
• Got annoyed by RPC style, code-gen webservices

Is it needed? Does it solve anything?

• Code-gen
• It fails…too often
• Archaic Xml configuration
• Distribution, misspelling…or even horrible merges
• Defaults that is bound to make you cry
• Why do I need to set values that should be default!
• Fixed serialization
• Could be nice to talk to more systems no matter who they are
• RPC style services
• Maintenance hell
• Chatty services
• Bulk it!

• Official subtitle:
• Web Services done right, REST services done easy :)
• Simple and model-driven
• Endpoint ignorant
• Authentication built-in
• IoC based
• Easy access to HTTP
• Fast as lightning
• Cross platform
• Extendable
• Oh!... And clients are in the box

This is where the most wheels are turning in your development

• IService
• Service
• And a lot more…

• Conventionbased registrations
• Throw exceptions and have magic httpstatuscodes
• Strong typed returns
• It’s more than CRUD
• PATCH etc.
• Restrict access to your services

• JSON
• Xml
• JSV
• CSV
• SOAP
• 1.1
• 1.2
• Custom

• Funq
• OrmLite
• ICacheClient
• MiniProfiler
• Validation
• Custom responses
• Headers

• It’s dead simple
• Fullfills the basic needs
• It’s fast
• If you don’t like …add an adaptor

• Do you really need EF?
• Do you trust your developers to know SQL?
• Want to get closer to the server?
• Pragmatic over academic

• You added caching so now you have more problems
• Cachekey generation
• It’s so darn hard!!!

• Estimates and guesses leaves you nowhere
• Easy to give response to the average Joe
• Thank you mr. Saffron and Dixon
• Don’t reinvent the wheel!!!

• if( request.Id != default(int) )
• It’s getting boring!
• Leverage the same validation in several places
• Fine grain it where needed

• If you want another content type
• If you need to return an image
• If you want to be a joker?

• CORS
• Please don’t use AddHeader
• If you want to you can do it
• Location
• …Link?
• Not sure you want to go that way ;)

…unless you want to go all JS on me :)

• Client interfaces
• IServiceClient
• IRestClient
• IRestClientAsync
• Implementations
• Soap11ServiceClient (only for IServiceClient)
• Soap12ServiceClient (only for IServiceClient)
• JsonServiceClient(Async)
• JsvServiceClient(Async)
• XmlServiceClient(Async)
• Or you can hookup to the XSDs or WSDLs as well
• Might be handy when delivering services to external partners

If you order now you will get … for only $19.99

• OrmLite • Caching
• MySQL • Memcached
• PostgreSQL • Azure
• Sqlite 32 & Sqlite 64 • Protobuf
• Firebird • MessagePack
• Oracle
• Logging
• Authentication • NLog
• MongoDB • Log4Net
• Nhibernate • ELMAH
• OpenId • Eventlog
• RavenDB
• Swagger
• Razor

Grab your whiskies and smile

• Fastest JSON serializer
• Burning Monk JSON Benchmarks (19/11/2012)

• Supports ASP.NET and HttpListener hosts
• Runs on Windows with .NET 3.5 and 4.0
• IIS 5/6/7 (uses IHttpHandler)
• VS.NET WebDev Server (Cassini)
• IIS Express
• Console App, Windows Gui, Windows Service
• Linux/OSX with Mono
• Apache + mod_mono
• Nginx + MonoFastCGI
• XSP
• Console App
• A demo have been done inside iOS with MonoTouch

Hetzner Windows Azure
• 2.67 GHZ • 1.67 GHZ
• 2GB RAM • 1.75GB RAM
• 80GB HDD • 100GB HDD
• 4TB Traffic • 2TB Traffic
• €19.90 • €219.50
• €238.80 • €2634

Well where I am going I don’t need roads!!!

• Source: https://github.com/ServiceStack
• Wiki: https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki
• More docs: http://www.servicestack.net/docs/
• Community resources:
https://github.com/ServiceStack/ServiceStack/wiki/Comm
unity-Resources
• Links to InfoQ articles:
http://www.servicestack.net/mythz_blog/?p=860

• Main contributor: Demis Bellot (@demisbellot)
• Currently creating awesomeness at StackExchange
• It’s been around for a while
• First commit Dec 21, 2008
• It is well maintained
• Currently at version 3.9.37
• Jun 6 2012 – 3.9.2
• Jan 8 2012 – 3.2.0
• Jun 11 2011 – 2.2.0

• Twitter: @cyberzeddk
• LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cyberzed
• Blog: http://cyberzed.dk
• Email: cyberzed@sleddog.dk
• GitHub: http://github.com/cyberzed/
• Tutorials will be published soon at Tech.Pro
• Book will be started of as an OS project this year
Feel free to contact me with any questions, or if you want
me to come talk more about ServiceStack