web-services

Variable number of arguments in an Axis2 POJO

I have a web service that I built with Axis2/Java. The web service will take in a list of objects and will process them. I'll use the following operation as an example. public class AddToDatabaseService{ public void addToDatabase(String name1, String name2, String name3, ....) { //add names to database } } I want the calle...

Replace low level web-service reference call transport with custom one

I'm not sure if title sounds right actually, so I will give more explanation here. I will begin from very beginning :) I'm using c# and .net for my development. I have an application that makes requests to some soap web-service and for each user request it produces 3 to 10 requests for web-service, they should all run async to finish...

Scability of .NET webservices

Can anyone help me with a question about webservices and scalability? I have written a webservice as a facade into our document management system and need to think about scalability issues. What areas should I be looking at to ensure performance and availability? Thanks in advance ...

How to publish web service produced data file accessible via browser

I need to make available to browsers data file produced by my web service method. Indeed the web service method should return url to produced file. I'm working with axis2 on tomcat. ...

What is an example of a website/service which _isn't_ REST?

So I just started digging into web tech, and I'm stuck on the concept of REST. Could someone clarify REST by giving me an example of what isn't rest? So, as far as I can tell, REST requires the server and client to both be in the same state at the end of every request-response HTTP transfer. Does that sound right? My understanding is t...

scvmap, disco, xsd, wsdl, svcinfo and datasource files

We have a WEb Service named, let's say Foo. So there is a Foo.svc file and a code behind Foo.svc.cs. We add a silverlight project and wish to use the Foo.svc services so we add a Service Reference and call it's namespace FooBar. This creates the following files : Reference.cs Reference.svcmap Foo.xsd Foo.disco configuration.svcinfo ...

send credentials with url, possible?

Hi. I got a web service that I protect with basic authentication and use ssl. to make it easy for the clients that are gone use this web service I want to skip the 401 and send the credentials with the url (I would like so the customer can access the web service with url from their code / web app), question is this possible? I know abou...

RIA Services and Shared domainlogic??

I'm kind of disappointed at Ria Services. I like to work in a domain driven design way, so for example if I'm working with an invoicing system I have an object invoice which will have all methods on it to for example calculate total price from its invoice rows. public decimal Amount { get {return Entries.Sum(x => x.Amount);} } I ...

monotouch secure webservices

Hey What are the steps involved in adding a secure webservcie? I can't seem to find a decent guide or anything anywhere. w:// ...

Can't get JAX-WS binding customization to work

Hi! I'm trying to resolve a name clash in a wsdl2java mapping with CXF 2.2.6 The relevant wsdl snippets are: <types>... <xs:schema... <xs:element name="GetBPK"> <xs:complexType> <xs:sequence> <xs:element name="PersonInfo" type="szr:PersonInfoType" /> <xs:element na...

SOAP - Why do I need to query for the original values for an update?

I'm taking over a project and wanted to understand if this is common practice using SOAP. The process that is currently in place I have to query all the values before I do an update cause I need to pass back all the values that are not being updated. Does this sound right? Example Values: fname=phill lname=pafford address=123 main phon...

WCF WebService. Does not allow sending more than 8kb of data...

I have developed a WCF WebService. On client side they are unable to send more than 8kb of file bytes[]. How can I increase the number of bytes the client and upload and also the time out. <system.serviceModel> <!-- Test File Size --> <binding maxReceivedMessageSize="2147483647"> <readerQuotas maxDepth="2147483647" maxStrin...

REST verbs - which convention is "correct"

I'm well into implementing a REST service (on a Windows CE platform if that matters) and I started out using IBM's general definitions of using POST for creating (INSERTs) and PUT for updating. Now I've run across Sun's definitions which are exactly the opposite. So my question is, which is the "generally accepted" definition? Or is...

REST services - exposing non-data "actions"

I understand how to use REST for doing general entity interactions - using urls names to map to entities and the HTTP verbs to map to actions on those entities. But what is the generally accepted way of looking at "actions" more like RPC? For example, let's say I want to send a command for the device to reset? There's no real "entit...

SOAP and HTTP Post.

I have an ASP.NET web service running that accepts both HTTP POST and SOAP requests. Are there any disadvantages to using a simple HTTP POST to get the data from the WS instead of using SOAP over HTTP? I can't think of anything else other than the support for transmission of complex data types, and I don't think I'll need that in this p...

RIA Service - without database?

Helo! I need to write a RIA service to call Java webservices from Silverlight 3.0 app. I'm testing how stuff works and in my Web app I have a MyData class which has 2 properties (int ID, string Text): namespace SilverlightApplication1.Web { public class MyData { [Key] public int ID { get; set; } public ...

ASP.NET - fast Segmented downoad of file through webservice

Hi, Im doing this project where i need to download files through a webservice (images, videos). The download MUST go through an existing webservice. The existing webservice was made when there were no need to upload and download files but the project has changed and now we need to do It through a webservice. Right now I have implemented...

WCF vs ASMX web service

I am totally confused between WCF and ASMX web service. I have used lot of web service in earlier stage and now there is new thing introduced WCF. I can still create WCF that function as a web service. I think there will be more stuff in WCF. Can any one provide me any article or difference between WCF and Web service? Which one to ...

Can/should one disable namespace validation in Axis2 clients using ADB databinding?

I have an document/literal Axis 1 service which I'm consuming with an Axis 2 client (ADB databinding, generated from WSDL2Java). It receives a valid XML response, but in parsing that XML, I get the error "Unexpected Subelement" for any type which doesn't have a namespace defined in the response. I can resolve the error by manually changi...

Session variable in WCF application

I need to use or stimulate a very simple session object inside my WCF app. I simply need to store some values at the beginning of a call and I need access to these values while I go through some different methods of my service. Asp.NET session would be very ideal to use for this so I need to find out what is available on a WCF app for ...