Creating Builder NE Web Services for Firefox, IE, Chrome and Safari

Code for "Art of MATLAB" post -- how to create WCF services that communicate using JSON.

Description

Web services created with the Windows Communication Foundation can serve Linux or Macintosh HTTP clients (for example Firefox, Chrome or Safari).

This example demonstrates how to use Builder NE's type safe APIs to build a simple WCF web service that can serve clients on any platform.

The example contains a WCF server that responds to HTTP queries with JavaScript Object Notation, and an HTML 5 client that uses JavaScript.

• Required Products: MATLAB Builder NE
• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.12 (2011a)
• Other requirements: C# compiler for Microsoft Windows (MSVC recommended). .NET Framework 3.0 or greater.

[Titus Edelhofer]

Nice! A simple and nice way to have a service running on a server that is web accessible and requires no installation at all on the Client side.