Establishment of Multimedia Platform Based on Web Service Technique

In order to solve the problem of establishing general multimedia platform brought by complexity of multimedia technology and heterogeneous environment, Web Service is used to establish loosely-coupled web-based distributed multimedia platform that can operate across all major operating systems and programming languages, and includes H. 264 encoder service and content-based image retrieval service. The platform's architecture, advantages and the method of establishing such a platform are also detailedly introduced. Common application servers are used in the server end to deploy a H. 264 encoding service and an image match service based on image color and spatial information. Traditional windows GUT application, web browser and embeded platform simulator are used at client end.