web-services

Jetty vs CXF / Which one to choose?

Hi, I am fairly new to the Java world and pretty overwhelmed by the beauty of choice between dozens of libraries doing more or less the same thing, or not. So with Jetty and CXF. I am looking for a web services stack that has built-in support for a wide range of transports and protocols. I was under the impression that CXF is the more...

Call web service over https

What do I need to call a web service over https in C#? Do I need to get the certificate form the site? How do I use this to call the web service? ...

How can I uniquely identify a desktop application making a request to my API?

I'm fleshing out an idea for a web service that will only allow requests from desktop applications (and desktop applications only) that have been registered with it. I can't really use a "secret key" for authentication because it would be really easy to discover and the applications that use the API would be deployed to many different ma...

Web Application Architecture?

I’m scoping a new software project and haven’t had much experience with software development. This is a multipart question. What are some recommended books for web application architecture? We are basically looking to develop several front end applications (mobile and websites) that can query a central application pool that’ll hit our...

IIS 6.0 hangs when serving a web-service

Hi guys I am having issues with one of our web-services. It works fine on my development machine (win XP) whether I host it as a separate application or using cassini from Visual studio. Once I deploy on the web-server (win 2003 server)it throws some generic error and crashes the IIS worker process(W3wp). If I try to attach visual stu...

How to publish definitions of inheriting classes - Java Web Service

Hi I have the following problem: I have a Web Service returning an ArrayList< CommunicationMedia > where CommunicationMedia is a superclass of many other classes and the List contains objects of these inheriting classes - the problem is, that wdsl generated does not contain any other declarations than CommunicationMedia itself - how do...

WSE 3.0 cookies support?

Hi, I'm trying to call a web service with WSE 3.0 which uses cookies for authentication. With standard SoapHttpClientProtocol, I could assign my CookieContainer to a request. However, WSE 3.0 web services does not directly or indirectly inherit from it. How can I set cookies to WSE 3.0 request? ...

Cosuming Biztalk 2006 R2 Orchestration exposed as a web service

Hi All, I have created an Orchestration which is exposed as a web service, the Orchestration basically receives an message type of employee, which has the Employee_Name promoted as a distinguised field to which I assign the value as below to the ModifiedEmployeeMsg in a Message assignment shape and send the ModifiedEmployeeMsg to the re...

What are best efficent ways to call WebService methods from JavaScript?

Hi, Actually I came up with this question, because of an example in one book I have tried and which did not work somehow. I am following "Professional JavaScript™ for Web Developers Nicholas C. Zakas" from Wrox. In its WebService chapter it is using "webservice.htc" webservice behavior to call a web service. I have tried to run that and...

IBM Data Studio - Security when publishing stored-proc as web service

I want to publish a mainframe Z/OS stored procedure as a web sphere - more or less according to this article: http://www.databasejournal.com/features/db2/article.php/10896%5F3784896%5F3/ We got the web-server installed and started, and the stored-proc deployed to it. When we clicked the "go" to test the web service we got an SQL erro...

Advantages of using a Dynamic Client with JAX-WS

What are the advantages of using a dynamic client with JAX-WS services as opposed to just using generated client classes? What are the disadvantages? **For my particular case I am using Apache CXF, I'm not sure what other libraries allow "dynamic" clients. -I thought I didn't need to add this, but... I'm looking for non-obvious(I know....

What is the correct terminology for web service client app error handling paradigms?

I am trying to research error handling paradigms in web service client apps. I haven't found any good results on Google - perhaps I'm not searching using the right terminology. I will describe my imagined approach to error handling below. Can you name it? Lets say our application is like iTunes but online. The user runs a JavaScript bas...

'Microsoft.Web.Services3.Addressing.Address' cannot be serialized

I'm trying to write a WCF wrapper web service for a WSE3/ASMX web service. [The ugly reason why is that a 3rd party vendor won't support SSL and that is what's needed for BizTalk 2009 WCF adapter to work with WS-Security. So if the vendor doesn't change - I need to call a local WCF web service...] I followed this article to get the ...

Tunneling A Protocol Through HTTP - Advice

What are the best examples of real life protocols that tunnel through HTTP? XMPP/Jabber? I'm looking for actual links to documentation? or specs for how they tunnel. I'm in working on project where I'm wondering if I should start with REST, XML-RPC, or SOAP and then have a fast TCP flavor of the protocol. Or start at the low level and t...

What are good techniques for retrieving a list of keywords for the top news stories of the day

I am working on an application where I would like to retrieve a list of the day's top news stories from some source (such as the BBC) and parse these for keywords that I can use against my own tag data. There are obviously lots of webservices and APIs out there - but what would you suggest as good routes to take. One thing I was consid...

.NET and webservices: how?

Hello, Im trying to make a webservice in ASP.NET and get the data in a Smart Device Application. I have the standard HelloWorld webservice and i wanna get the data in my application, but when i try to add a web reference to my project, Visual Studio can't find any webservices running. If i start the WebService in the WebService projec...

How to populate a paged Dojo.Grid with data from an ASP.Net web service?

I'm trying to populate a Dojo grid with data from an ASP.Net web service. There is going to be a lot of rows, so I want to implement paging on the server side, so the web service will accept parameters "start" and "count". I've gotten pretty close, by using QueryReadStore and overriding the "fetch" function to add additional parameters...

What does it mean "to write a web service"?

Hello everybody, I just asked a question about whether it was possible to write a web-page-checking code and run it from free web server, and one supporter answered and said that it was possible only if I run "a web service" as simple script won't do that. He also suggested that I used Google App Engine service. I wonder what does it me...

Is it possible to have a free web-service that would check a page and email its HTML code to me?

Hello everybody, I just asked a question about whether it was possible to write a web-page-checking code and run it from free web server, and one supporter answered and said that it was possible and suggested that I used Google App Engine service. But he also said that there are no files there, so I would have to work with their data...

Web services Security

Hi I have a question regarding security, and web services. I need a web service to provide an interface for the underlying mySQL database. I am trying to get a Blackberry Application to store data on the web servers mySQL database through a web service. My question is, how can I ensure that the bb-application is the only thing tha...