Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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| A single word | cat
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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What is a Web Service?
The formal definition (according to www.w3c.org) is that a Web service is a software application identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI), whose interfaces and binding are capable of being defined, described, and discovered by XML artifacts and supports direct interactions with other software applications using XML-based messages via Internet-based protocols.
A Web service is a software system designed to support interoperable application to application interaction over a network. It has an interface described in a machine-processable format (specifically WSDL). Other systems interact with Web Services in a manner prescribed by its description using SOAP messages, typically conveyed using HTTP with an XML serialization in conjunction with other Web-related standards.
There are two major classes of Web Services:
- REST-compliant Web Services: The primary purpose of the service is to manipulate XML representations of Web resources using a uniform set of "stateless" operations.
- Arbitrary Web Services: The service may expose an arbitrary set of operations.
Both these Web Services use URIs to identify resources and use Web protocols (such as HTTP and SOAP) and XML data formats for messaging.
