Creating an effective web solution for managing images and their versions

Abstract The aim of this paper is to describe the process of creating a web service and its client applications. One can combine them and create Flare application, an image repository which simplifies the image management process in developing web or mobile applications. Original image versioning is enabled so that users can have several different versions of the same image in their application. These versions are created by adding parameters to the original image URL. The newly created image version is saved on the server to optimize each subsequent request for the identical version. Client application provides a graphical interface for web service interaction via HTTPS protocol.