web-services

Problems consuming webservice on ASP.NET on production(IIS) server

We've implemented some SOAP client code on our ASP.NET site that calls up a remote service. Implementation was basically done by using Visual Studio "Add Web Reference" wizard, adding proper 'using remote.service.namespace' to the code and calling the service. Code works perfect locally(from Visual Studio), but fails on production web s...

Consuming .NET web service in Oracle Forms

I have a web service that i need to consume in Oracle Forms. The web service is SOAP based service and was generated using Microsoft Biztalk Server. The service accepts a complex xml message as its request and returns a similar xml message as response. I want to consume this service from within my Oracle Forms Application (Forms version ...

Keeping state with remote EJBs and Web Services

I have a web-based application which makes use of remote EJBs for its business logic. Some of these EJBs are also exposed as Web Services. I need to keep a small state for some of these calls in order to allow subsequent calls to function correctly. Which of the following would you recommend? Stateful EJBs (will this work with Web Serv...

Call Microsoft EWS from JSF app running on JBoss

Hello, I'm running JBoss 4.2.3, Java 1.5, and Ubuntu. Before you tell me to post on the JBossWS forum, I already have and there is not a lot of activity over there. I am trying to call a Microsoft Exchange web service end point from a JSF web application. I have written other web service end points and have successfully built clients in...

Webservice caching reverse proxy?

I'd like to put some kind of caching reverse proxy in front of a SOAP webservice over HTTP to improve both performance and availability. Is there some software that performs this? (Preferably free and easy to install/use). The idea is here: the responses of the webservice vary with the request, but for each request the responses rarely...

Does ajax require a web service?

If I want to get data to update partially in a page with jquery (or something else) ajax, does the page I call have to be a web service? Or will just any page that returns json or xml be fine? I guess I'm asking it like this because in asp.net you have "offical" web services. In other languages and frameworks they may not be like that...

How do I generate C# code from WADL files?

I am looking for a code generator than can generate C# code to access RESTful web services described by WADL files in a way similar to how wadl2java works. Doing som searching I came across the rest-api-code-gen project on Google Code, but although the latest source does in fact support C#, the REST Describe & Compile demo site does not...

FLASH: Unable to connect to endpoint .Net ASMX Web service

I am troubleshooting a legacy flash application built using Flash MX 2004 and actionscript 2. It interacts with web services. I am getting the error mentioned in the title. Does anyone have any experience dealing with such errors? Url in the config file is http://XX.XX.XX.XX/abc/abc.asmx%3FWSDL ...

How to return Domain objects from a WebService to my SilverLight Application

Im my DDD Aplication I have a lot of Domain Objects like date: class User() { public String Name{get;set;} } The persistence of then already done! Now im going to Client Side (SilverLight). My problem is: how i work with a User object on Client Side. Example: // only a example User user = Service.Login("crazyjoe","1234"); ...

Debugging a site using web service with Visual Studio 2008

I've got a solution with many projects One of these proejcts is a "MyProject.Web" web application. This has a web reference to MyProject.WebService" project - I have a breakpoint in the WebService project, and i call the method on one of my Web forms, the break point is not hit.... How can i enable this? ...

Different behavior between 'Service Reference' and 'Web Reference'

I have WCF endpoint exposed as defined bellow, <service name="MyApp.Server.Endpoint.Orange" behaviorConfiguration="MyTio.Server.Endpoint.OrangeBehavior"> <endpoint address="" binding="basicHttpBinding" contract="Host.Server.Contract.IMyAppApi" bindingNamespace="http://host.com/myapp"&gt; <identity> <dns value="localhost"/> ...

Cross-Platform Web Services Authentication

I'm working on a project where we have several SOAP Web Services developed on different programming languages, like Java, Perl and Python. I need to authenticate users that will use each Web Service, denying users that we do not want. I have already seen OAuth, but I didn't found any documentation that helped me on this way. And with OA...

Updating database on website from another data store

I have a client who owns a business with a handful of employees. He has a product website that has several hundred static product pages that are updated periodically via FTP. We want to change this to a data-driven website, but the database (which will be hosted at an ISP) will have to be updated from data on my client's servers. Ho...

Possible causes of Generic Server Error message for SoapException

I am currently accessing a web service. The only message I got from the thrown exception is "Server Error." During the past tests, the only exceptions I encountered have HTTP error codes in it i.e. 401 Unauthorized, 403 Forbidden, etc. This one doesn't have it and it is really generic. Any experiences on what the possible causes are?...

RESTful API vs Web Service API

I am looking at doing a small web application for learning purposes, using .NET. My conundrum is whether I should be exposing application logic to other sites and applications via a REST API, or a set of Web Services. I am familiar with web services, but have not worked with REST. I understand the concepts of REST, I just have no pract...

Generic .Net Web Services

At the moment we're are considering writing a number of .Net web services to export/import data between sites. There are various different types of data involved, relating to multiple database tables. I could write various web services to receive the data being sent, for example ImportSomeRecord(field1, field2, field3) ImportSomeRecord...

Best way to implement Federated Security over Web Services

I need to know what is the best framework to implement Federated Security over Web Services, these Web Services are being developed using multiple different languages, like Java, Python and Perl. I already saw some information about OpenSSO, Liberty, PingFederate and Shibboleth. But which one is the best and the easier to implement? Th...

Help understanding how to build a web service

I have a client who has an ASP shopping cart (classic asp) and a Windows based point of sale system both using their own SQL Server databases. The maker of the Windows point of sale system has a utility that will export the inventory as an XML file and will also retrieve any sales from the shopping cart if it is in their special XML for...

How can I have web services implement in an assembly that is a console application using Cassini?

I am trying to use Cassini to host my ashx webservices. It works fine if I have the services in one assembly (class library), and the cassini server in the other (console application). Howver, when I move all the ashx files and implementations to the console application, I get the following error while trying to access the web service: ...

Issue using List returned by webservice

Hi- I have a webservice that returns a list of "Clinics" near a certain lat/long. However, in my calling web, I can't compile as an error is occuring on the following code. private static List<Clinic> GetClinicsNearLocation(Coordinate coordinate, int searchDistance) { var wsDental = new ProviderLocation_Dental(); List<Clinic> c...