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Figure 12: Services Vmoox Web Service Provides to the iPhone App
As illustrated in Figure 12 Vmoox web service uses an Ad serving algorithm
module to append a pre-roll video ad before serving the publisher content.
When a request of type “Get videos’ media URLs” enters the Vmoox web
service, the web service uses VEDA in order to decide if an asynchronies real
time transcoding is needed and to generate the list of videos’ chapters (including
the pre-roll ad).
The mentioned requests are HTTP GET requests, when the response for these
requests is also an HTTP JSON/JSONP formatted response. This will enable the
clients to easily read and manipulate data on the client side.
There are several benefits of using JSON/JSONP web service as Vmoox web
service protocol:
1. The use of web service as the data delivery mechanism reinforces a good
software engineering design practice when components are loosely coupled [41].
2. JSON/JSONP is a lightweight protocol that enables developers to easily
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