Best way to make Linux Web Services? [closed]

Question

I have a server that is running Ubuntu Linux Server Edition. I once had a Windows Server and it is easy to create web services using ASP.net on Windows. Linux on the other hand does support ASP.net using Mono, but is isn't as full featured as Windows. So what would be the best way to create xml web services on a linux server box?

Thanks

Answer 1

I guess the best answer depends a bit on what you really need, but one option is to use any of the recent web frameworks, such as Rails, CakePHP, or Django, which allow you to easily define database backed models, and then compose dynamic sites. Turnaround on these frameworks can be measured in minutes for simple sites.

Answer 2

There's a plethora of materials available with a simple search for "PHP Web Service" on Google. I'm not really sure what language you're using or what type of service you want to set up so I went with PHP Soap.

http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2007/07/26/php-web-services.html

Answer 3

Although it is based on a commercial product the following is an excellent primer to assist you in understanding how you would develop a Java based web service on Linux. If you find a similar tutorial based on free software please share it.

Answer 4

There's a lot of industry standard specification and implementation in Java dealing with all aspects of server side web programming. Start off by an open source implementation such as Apache Tomcat and/or any of http://ws.apache.org/

Answer 5

If you want to use ASP.net then use a windows server.

If you have to use Linux for some reason then you need to learn another language to work properly in the linux environment.