Developing a Web 2.0 RESTful Cocoon Web Services for Telemedical Education
Sabah Mohammed, Ahmed Husseini Orabi, Jinan Fiaidhi, Kalpdrum Passi · 2008
Web 2.0 sociable technologies and social software are presented as enablers in health and health care, for organizations, clinicians, patients and laypersons. There are many Web 2.0 social applications in education, namely wikis, blogs and podcasts/vodcasts. Web 2.0 technologies represent quite a revolutionary way of managing and repurposing/remixing online information and knowledge repositories, including clinical and research information, in comparison with the traditional Web 1.0 model. This article develops a RESTful portalbased on the Apache Cocoon 2.2 Web Services framework. It describes a dynamic portlet service that enables the DICOM Web Services represented as vodcasts to be integrated with AJAX.