Communication between desktop and web applications  Author:
Manuel Rego Casasnovas Date: 20/11/2009 Copyright: Some rights
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Nowadays, everybody uses web applications. Despite of their
advantages, like being available at any place with Internet,
they have some usability problems with regard to common desktop
applications.  This article tries to analyze the possible
solutions in order to interconnect desktop and web applications,
centered in the GNOME platform and using RTM-GLib as example and
study case.  Table of Contents   There are a large amount of web
services in the Internet. A general definition of web service
said that it is a system which provides an interface to allow
interaction between machines over a network.  As time passes
more and more web applications provide some kind of API in order
to access their services. This number is growing and it seems
that will keep growing for some ti