Invoking a POST RESTful web service from JavaScript

Here is a simple example of how to invoke our RESTful web service to add a course from JavaScript:

<!DOCTYPE html> 
<html> 
<head> 
<meta charset="UTF-8"> 
<title>Add Course - JSON</title> 
 
<script type="text/javascript"> 
 
  function testAddCourseJSON() { 
 
    //Hardcoded course information to keep example simple. 
    //This could be passed as arguments to this function 
    //We could also use HTML form to get this information from  users var courseName = "Course-4"; var credits = 4; //Create XMLHttpRequest var req = new XMLHttpRequest(); //Set callback function, because we will have XMLHttpRequest //make asynchronous call to our web service req.onreadystatechange = function () { if (req.readyState == 4 && req.status ...

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