web-services

Are there any paid or free APIs that provide good product images by name or SKU?

Looking for a web service that will let me query good-quality product images for general consumer product queries. Ideally, this would enable me to search by keywords, but otherwise manufacturer SKU. I know Amazon has services like this, but they can only be used to sell products on Amazon, and I'm looking for something more general pu...

how to use reflection in C# to list the methods of an .asmx

given a url that references an asmx how would i go about displaying all of their method names? if assembly="http://.../something/something.asmx" and i was trying to display the method names of that service what should i do now that i have gotten myself this far? i cant seem to find a solution among the hundreds of examples ive looked at...

How do I make a method available as a web service in Python?

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Asynchronounous Invocation WS

Hi, I would like to understand how the asynchronous invocation model in jax ws works. If for example I use Future invokeAsync(T msg, AsyncHandler handler) then my program can resume and when the response from the web service arrives, the result will be passed to my AsyncHandler. If I have several threads in the same program and one threa...

Windows Mobile 6.5 - .NET CF connection management

Hello I'm developing a Win32 mobile application (.NET CF 2.0/3.5) that has to communicate with a WebService. The mobile computer will be used in places called "Dispatch" where good WLAN coverage is provided and company offers its own AP with defined SSID name. This means that the mobile computer must use those APs (knowing their SSID na...

How long can a ASP.net application run for a single request.

Hi, We have developed a web application which consumes a web service. The user will upload data using the application. Uploading one record using web service takes 7 sec. The user will upload approximately 12000 record at a time. So it is taking more time. So can a web application run for more than 5 or 6 hours ? What are all the fa...

Asynchronounous Invocation WS

Hi, I would like to understand how the asynchronous invocation model in jax ws works. If for example I use Future invokeAsync(T msg, AsyncHandler handler) then my program can resume and when the response from the web service arrives, the result will be passed to my AsyncHandler. If I have several threads in the same program and one threa...

Facing problems in fetching the data from php web services installed in cake-php from iphone.

Hi everybody! I'm new to php and have zero exprience with the cake-php. I created the php web services, which reads data from MySql and return to my iphone app. Previously I used the same code successfully in many app, But now I'm facing the problems in it. Because the web server on which I installed my web services is cake-php based. wh...

Do Async Web service calls keep the connection alive?

A very quick question came to mind that whether the async web service calls keeps the connection alive? If not then what is the underlying mechanism to reconnect to client via callback function after the operation is performed. If yes then is it just the perception for the client that they can move forward without waiting for the respons...

Sending DateTime from .Net to Java Web Service

Hi All, I am having some issues with a Java web service i have consumed into my simple outlook add in that i am trying to integrate with this 3rd party API. The problem is the difference between .Net dates and Java ones, i will be honest i do not know much about Java anymore. My problem is that the API is expecting a date in the forma...

Web service contains additional string tag

I am getting a web service response as below. It has additional XML tag and string tag in the response. I was not able to load this response into XMLDocument object in Dot Net. I have asked web service provider to remove those tags before sending response. But they said that this is the web service standard. Is it how web service suppose...

Should I use a WCF or an ASMX webservice?

Hi I was looking for an asp.net webservice that uses .net 4.0 but everytime I choose 4.0 the webservice choice goes away. Someone suggested to me that maybe they(MS) want you to use WCF instead. I don't know much about it but he said they are like webservices but better. So anyone got a comparisons guide? ...

System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException in WCF Service

Hello Everyone, We have recently moved from VS 2008 to VS 2010. With that my applications are now running off of the .net 4.0 framework and MVC 2.0. After doing a little bit of conversion on my local machine to both the MVC project and the services project that gets referenced all is running seamlessly on my local machine. I next cop...

data encoding questions

We have .bmp files (2M per file) which are stored in Sybase as long binary. we need to retrieve them from database and send to client for display via WebService. Do we have to do some encoding to pack data before we put them onto the internet? how to choose the encoding? thanks, ...

web service data transfer question

Applicatins are built by using C#. one of the tasks is transfer a image file from server to client via web service (SOAP). in the client side, the image file will be saved to disk, no web page. one of my co-workers told us, the data transferred between server and client must be under 8k, so we need to cut our image file, which is 2M, in...

Which files should be imported in a subversion repository for a web services project?

I created a Java Project in Eclipse using the Web services Top down approach (i.e. creating a WSDL file and using it to generate the Skeleton Java class and web services with axis2) (Hence, there are a lot of auto-generated files and axis2 jar libraries). My Project has the following files/directory structure - Deployment...

Is it possible to use soaplib server with Apache?

Almost every documentation I am seeing shows Soaplib servers to be deployed using Cherry Py or some other server. Instead of that can be be deployed using apache? Thanks ...

Why am I getting this error when I try writing a client for soaplib?

Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in NameError: name 'HelloWorldService' is not defined I am following the example at http://github.com/jkp/soaplib by writing the following code: from soaplib.client import make_service_client client = make_service_client('http://localhost:7789/',HelloWorldService()) ...

One handler for multiple webservice

I am using JAX-WS for creating my API. I have implemented SOAPHandler for the web-service. Now can i use that same handler for other web-services which needs the same functionality? If yes, can it create any issue when many web-services are being accessed at a time. ...

Fine Grained rest HTTP verbs browser support

Is there any data regarding how browsers actually support rest http verbs (especially PUT, DELETE). This question is mostly motivated by the fact that many sources (such as this stackoverflow answer) inform that most browsers don't suport PUT and DELETE but don't say which. Rails solves this using a patch on the client, and reversing th...