Dojo’s improved RPC and new REST services can be used with a wide array of web services. One particular use is Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Dojo can connect to Amazon S3’s with a trivial proxy and be used as a normal RPC service. Not only that, Amazon S3 is a REST service and therefore it can be used as a data store with Dojo’s new REST implementation of dojo.data, JsonRestStore. You can read and write to your S3 database using the convenient Dojo Data API, and use the data store in Dojo widgets.

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A very useful feature of Dojo is the dojox.data.ServiceStore data store. It allows you to layer a dojo.data API on top of any web service, opening up a world of uses from your own client-side components. Kris Zyp briefly mentioned the topic in his recent article on JsonRestStore, and the past couple of weeks have seen a bunch of refinements to the component to get it ready for next month’s Dojo 1.2 release. Let’s take a quick look at how to make it work with the web service of your choice.

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