Bill Appleton

Bill Appleton

Bill is a leading experton the use of web services for smart client applications. He has designed handwritten approximately three-dozen professional software publications, including the first rich-media authoring tool World Builder in 1984, the multimedia programming language SuperCard in 1989, the best selling CD-ROM Titanic in 1996, and the first App Exchange application DreamTeam in2005. Bill previously served as president of the gaming company CyberFlix.
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SOA is Not a Mobile Backend

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SOA is Not a Mobile Backend


  • Friday, May 1, 2015
  • By Bill Appleton

The rise of mobile devices finally pushed the adoption of web services into the mainstream of application development. But years before this, companies used web services to build sophisticated service-oriented architectures for application developmen...


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