web-services

Read XML in Actionscript 1.0

I need to program an interactive app running on Flash Media Interactive Server, which only supports Actionscript 1.0. This particular app needs to read remote data from a remote webservice. Is there any way to load remotely generated XML in Actionscript 1.0? The only closest solution I've found on the net uses the LoadVar class, which do...

What are essential framework services for a mid-sized company?

I create .NET applications for a mid-sized manufacturing company. I would like to create a number of "framework" web services that can be employed by most of my applications. What web services have you found to be useful for reuse within such an environment? UPDATE: applications will do everything from e-commerce with external custom...

Accessing SharePoint authentication information from .NET ActiveX control

We have a .NET ActiveX control which is embedded inside a custom SharePoint page. The user has to authenticate (Windows Authentication not Forms Authentication) to access this page. Our ActiveX control is making web service calls back to the SharePoint server. Because the SharePoint server does not allow anonymous access, we need to p...

How to Get FedEx & UPS Zone numbers if I know the from and to Zip Codes?

Other than studying and working with their full APIs... Is there an easy way to get the shipping zone number from FedEx and UPS if I know the "from" and "to" zip codes? For example, is there a simple web service that I can use? ...

Problems with Web Service Data Source in Crystal Reports 2008

I'm trying to hook up my SOAP webservice to be used as a crystal reports data service and I'm running into some problems. I follow the wizard and after I enter my WSDL URL and my credentials, I go on to the final page. On this page, the drop down boxes are empty. I manually enter the service name, port and method, and then hit finish ...

how to optimize time in webservice while sending request and receiving response?

I m working with some web services where i m requesting for web service around 4000 times in loop each time i m getting some data from web service, that is working fine...but the problem is that it's taking time...obviously 4000 times cost a time, but is there any way that we can optimize the time with this? thanks. Actually .. i have ...

Ruby REXML throws ParseException, but PHP xml parser works

I'm trying to call a web service from a PHP page via a Ruby script. The PHP script returns a string and itself calls another web service; I've tested the PHP script alone and it returns a single string. I'm trying to call this method via RPC using the following code: require 'soap/rpc/driver' driver = SOAP::RPC:Driver.new('http://mysi...

.NET Webservice = The surrogate pair is invalid

Getting the following thrown error when calling a web service. Have googled without any results other then people asking the same question. Server was unable to process request. ---> The surrogate pair (0xD860, 0x27) is invalid. A high surrogate character (0xD800 - 0xDBFF) must always be paired with a low surrogate character (0xDC00 - 0...

Decrypting Message with a Spring Web Service Client

350 Bounty and waffles to the person who can help me! I have been struggling with Spring Web Service encryption for days and I can't figure out how to get Spring's encryption on the message body to work. Whenever I have the server encrypt the resulting message the client doesn't seem to be decrypting it before it attempts to validate i...

Design or implementaion ?

How do you differentiate between design decisions vs implementation decisions ? To give a specific example: We are developing some web services which will integrate our application with another One of the question I asked was- do we want the integration between the two applications to by asynch or sync ? Someone suggested that its an ...

.NET - Return a List<CustomSerializableObject> from a webservice

Is it a good idea to try and return a strongly typed List of custom objects from a webservice? Any pitfalls I should know about? [WebMethod] public List<CustomSerializableObject> GetList() { List<CustomSerializableObject> listToReturn = new List<CustomSerializableObject>(); listToReturn.Add(new CustomSerializableObject()); ...

How to keep attachments in temporary file, not in memory, during web service message download on JBoss

I have the following problem on JBoss 4.2.3 and 5.1 using JBoss WS Native Stack. The web service is receiving a significant number of large attachments. When my server is receiving these attachments, they are stored in memory until the whole message is transfered and parsed. As a result, I am runnig out of memory quickly (due to large ...

How to suppress "This page is accessing information not under its control"

I get this message when I am trying to access a web service from Jquery located in SAME the URL (but different directory). I know it is IE security setting. The question is, how do I suppress it...surely, people don't put web services in the same web site, same directory.... ...

Is there a third-party service for receiving email and accessing via an API?

I'd like to build a feature into our web app that involves receiving and processing the contents of an email. But instead of going through the hassle of getting email setup on our server, it'd be really nice if there were a third-party service where I could forward emails and they could then process them and make the contents of the ema...

Asynchronous web service call returning null (called from ASP.NET asynchronous page)

I am consuming a 3rd-party web service which has been implemented in WCF. My consumer code resides on an ASP.NET asynchronous page. Problem is, sometimes the BeginCallWebService() method is returning null. Shouldn't it always return an IAsyncResult object? Should I ask the web service developer to modify their code, or is null a legit...

Subscribing to TFS events and WCF

Sorry for asking a question about something I don't know much about, but I've been pulling my hair out trying to get this working. So, I have a WCF service that is hosted on IIS and seems to be working insomuch that I can "see" it on the network by going to http://servername/MyService.svc in a browser. That .svc looks like: <% @Servic...

MessageID format in WSE

Hi, I've built a web service using WSE 3.0 that should interface with various other platforms like IBM's WebSphere. In the addressing part of the request the content of MessageID needs to be in the format uuid:xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx. Anything else results in a "Bad Request" error. I've been told that according to WS-Addres...

Please Guide about Exceptions.

Hi, I have web application with Presentaion layer,Business Layer,Data Access Layer. I am getting data by web service which is connected with my Data Access Layer.Means it is one of type of remoting i am using. Which exception i must handle in this scenario, in my DAL and Business Layer? Please guide me. ...

Connecting to a Web Service running on Visual Studio Development Server from another machine

Hi, I have a web service running on machine A on Visual Studio's build-in Development Server. For testing purposes, I'd like to test the service by connecting to it from machine B, which is in the same subnet. Is this possible? Or is VSDS restricted to localhost calls only? -pom- ...

WCF multiple data contracts or multiple service contracts representing multiple data model classes?

In my WPF application data model I have multiple classes representing data for interaction with backend DB through WCF self hosted service. Should I have multiple Data Contracts or multiple Service Contacts or Endpoints in my WCF Sevice for representing these multiple WPF data model classes? What is correct (or maybe the only) way to a...