We have some COBOL programs in our financial applications which need to interact with some of our backend systems. One of the available interfaces is through a web service. Can a program written in Cobol make requests to a web service? ...
The JDBC realm specifies a table structure for authentication which contains the columns defined by the attributes userNameCol and userCredCol. These correspond to user and password which makes sense for FORM or BASIC auth-methods. They are interactive and require these two pieces from the client's user. What comes back from the cert...
I've inherited this really weird codebase where they've built an external web service over a bunch of internal web services just to add authentication/authorization using WS-Security, WS-Encryption, et al. Less than a month into this engagement, I'm already feeling the pain of coupling volatile components through rigid WSDL, esp consider...
I'm creating a webservice, and I want to name it appropriately. Right now my service is named Service as per the /App_Code/Service.cs Should I rename it to something like: com.example.MyWebService.cs? How do I get around the class file not excepting '.' in the file name? ...
How do I solve the error: Unable to read WSDL from URL: https://workflowtest.site.edu/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx?WSDL. Error: 401 Unauthorized. I can successfully view the WSDL from the browser using the same user account. I'm not sure which authentication is being used (Basic or Integrated). How would I find that out? The code making...
I'm building an ASP.NET AJAX application that uses JavaScript to call web services to get its data, and also uses Silverlights Isolated Storage to cache the data on the client machine. Ultimately once the data is downloaded it is passed to JavaScript which displays in on the page using the HTML DOM. What I'm trying to figure out is, doe...
I've exposed several web services in our product using java and WS-Security. One of our customers wants to consume the web service using Coldfusion. Does coldfusion support ws-security? Can I get around it by writing a java client and using that in coldfusion? (I don't know much about coldfusion). ...
I've got a WCF Web Service method whose prototype is: [OperationContract] Response<List<Customer>> GetCustomers(); When I add the service reference to a client, Visual Studio (2005) creates a type called "ResponseOfArrayOfCustomerrleXg3IC" that is a wrapper for "Response<List<Customer>>". Is there any way I can control the wrapper na...
I'm in a small business of hosting my clients' websites, and a lot of times they ask me to create one from scratch. I'm no designer, but I can code CSS/HTML, AJAX, PHP. However, I'm not willing to create sites from scratch, knowing how much is involved. In the past, I've tried using design templates, but they proved to be inefficient - ...
I'm trying to call a web service from Excel 2003 module. The way i've implemented it is creating a .NET COM library with all the classes/methods i need to be exposed. When i try to call a method that queries a web service from Excel the execution just stops on that line without any error. May be it has to do with references? I'm using Mi...
Hello, in sharepoint webservices, I can use getListItems() to obtain the child elements of a list. In a document library, sometimes the element is a folder. "ows_FSObjType = 1" Is there any way to ask SP for the child elements of this folder? Querying with getListItems() using the folder ID gives me a SOAP Exception. Edit: I fou...
I decided to use log4net as a logger for a new webservice project. Everything is working fine, but I get a lot of messages like the one below, for every log4net tag I am using in my web.config: Could not find schema information for the element 'log4net'... Below are the relevant parts of my web.config: <configSections> <se...
Scenario I have an HTML/javascript website that uses javascriptSOAPClient communicate with an ASP.NET 1.1 web service in order to read/write to a SQL database. (http://www.codeproject.com/KB/ajax/JavaScriptSOAPClient.aspx). The database contains anonymous demographic information--no names, no credit cards, no addresses. Essentially the ...
I'm working on a project where I have 2 web services that need the same entity. The 2 web services are on the same server so on the back-end, they share the same classes. On the front-end side, my code consumes both web services and sees the entities from both services as separate (in different namespaces) so I can't use the entity acr...
How can i go about programaticaly getting the IP address of my network as seen from the Internet? Its obviously a property that my router has access to when it connects to the ISP. Is there any way to get this info from a router using a standard protocol. My only other option is to either find a WS which returns my IP address (suprisingl...
Does anyone know of a sample distributed application (.NET or J2EE) using RMI or Web Services? ...
How do I determine in a .Net DLL whether it's running in a Windows GUI application or web service? I've got a low level class which is being shared between two applications and need to disable message boxes when it's used in a web service. The Windows application has over 200 solutions and I'm not in a position to re-factor the existin...
I have built a complex query mechanism which I want to provide a factory for in order to assist people with common query patterns. My methods are all revealed via WCF as a SOAP web service. What is the best way to ensure that my factory is easy to use across all clients that may wish to use my service (as I don't expect all of my custome...
I'm using Exchange Web Services to Find, Create, Update, and Delete appointments from the calendars for one or more people. The application would be used by a manager to view employees' vacation time, as well as assign appointments based on availability. In order for this to all work, an authenticated user's credentials must be sent to ...
Hello, I can't find much information around the web about it. Has anyone used both eConnect and the Dynamics web services to interact (read/write) with Great Plains. I am looking for the pros and cons of both approaches. This product will be installed and configured on various sites, so ease of configuration is really important. I usua...