web-services

Remoting(AMF) vs webservices for flash image gallery and form submission

Hi I've built a few gallery applications using AMFPHP (remoting). Now I'm faced with another project with existing database functionality already completed in .NET (.aspx). Can anyone tell me what the differences are in creating an image gallery with webservices vs remoting? And is their a recommended 3rd party webervices package? I'd p...

Is there a way to use multiple wsit-client.xml files in the same NetBeans project?

I need to consume two .NET webservices in NetBeans. I am using the METRO 2 library to generate the client code. These web services (webservice 1 and webservice 2) are from the same provider and when I have both of them in the same project their generated code shares the same namespace. The problem is that the ObjectFactory class is ...

In .NET web services, how can the SoapException.Message property be easily readable?

I am writing an ASP.NET web service and am throwing a SoapException with a message: throw new SoapException("BANG!", SoapException.ClientFaultCode); When I create an ASP.NET client, and request a label to display the SoapException.Message property, it displays a message similar to the following: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapExce...

iphone & rest web service - what is the best practice?

I am developing an iphone app that uses a php web service for all functionalities. I am planning on creating model objects to communication between my UI and web service. Is it better to create model classes on php to communicate between my iphone models and database? or is it ok to communicate directly from database to my model classes...

how to make WebService installation and How to overcome the security problem

hi how to make WebService installation and How to overcome the security problem ? (i need to make My WebService setup that i can install on customer computer) thank's in advance ...

ASP.NET Method error 500 on dropdown

I get a method error 500 on my dropdown. I've seen other posts, but those solutions did not work for me. Strange thing is that if I call the webservice outside the page (directly) I do get the desired response. But via the dropdown it seems that the webservice is not even called... Here's my code: <asp:DropDownList ID="ddlCountries" ru...

How to implement publish/subscribe communication over the internet

I have a .Net service hosted on a server, and .Net clients connecting to this server over the internet. I want to implement a publish subscribe model where clients can subscribe to events on the service and have data pushed to them as data becomes available. An alternative would be to have clients poll the server for data, however this ...

Calling an ASP.NET asmx Soap webservice with raw GET: problem with double type

I have an asmx webservice that I need to pass a value of 0.05. I want to test Firefox addon Poster https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2691/ with it, everything fine except type conversion as Server response is: Cannot convert 0.05,0.05 to System.Double. Parameter name: type ---> Input string was not in a correct format. Wh...

Embeddable commenting systems comparison?

I need embeddable commenting system for web site where I can control posts. I want to delete posts I don't want to see and think that you can't do that if you use FB embeddable comments. There is DISQUS, FB comments and many more solutions. What do you think is best? For me controlling comments, deletion of unwanted ones and banning use...

Threaded web service call

I am requesting information from a web service in my android app. The web service returns a list of items, each item having a base64 image and some info First method: simply access the web service and get the result. This means freeze of UI until data is downloaded. Not a good solution Second method: put the data download in a thread, ...

MS Office Webservice toolkit for Office 2007 ?

There is an article here for MS Office 2003 http://metrix.fcny.org/wiki/display/tips/How+to+Create+a+Microsoft+Access+Client+for+a+SOAP-based+Web+Service+API When I tried to install http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=fa36018a-e1cf-48a3-9b35-169d819ecf18&amp;DisplayLang=en it says it requires Office 2003 whereas ...

Windows app to get XML data from a website containing XML data

I am trying to come up with a windows form application (or WPF) developed in C#.The requirement for my app is to get user search related xml node data from a website containing xml. The application would connect to a website containing xml and grab relevant xml nodes from the website. I would then display the xml node data on my windows ...

Testing a WCF web service

Hi All, I have written a commercial WCF web service. I would like to give the service to another person to test independent of the application that will be using the web service. This is because a third party is going to be building that app and we don't have access to it at the moment. Another thing to remember too is that the person...

IIS host a wsdl file and raw xml for a dummy service

How can I host a dummy web service in IIS 7 with just a WSDL file and a XML file? It's a dummy service that will return a harcoded string from a method name. ...

Cannot get the WCF Test Client to work

Hi All, I am using the WCF Test Client. When I go to 'add service' and select a service to add I get this message, Assembly Microsoft.ApplicationServer.Hosting, Version 1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35 was not found. Reinstall the assembly or Visual Studio. The application cannot continue and will exit. The se...

How to choose which port to use for a service? (windows & .net)

I'm writing a windows service which will expose an http RESTful web service for other processes on the machine. This will be deployed to lots of machines on various corporate desktops that I have little/no control over. How should I choose which port my service should listen on? I'll make it configurable, but need to know how to choose...

Using PHP's echo as a web service

It's way too much work to create a restful web service. Why can't we just create a simple php page which receives requests and simply echos the JSON string. for example: <?php $action = $_POST['action']; if (action == "users") { //get all users from DB and echo a JSON string } else if (action = "ads") ...

Converting asmx SOAP webservice to REST on ASP.NET: is WCF really usefull for just that ?

Why not just add http get support in config and that's done with the advantage that the service will be dual both SOAP AND REST? What's all the buzz around rest ? What WCF will bring to this ? I mean what's the difference from the viewpoint of a REST client application if I just set in my web.config for my asmx webservice to being abl...

Is this a namespacing problem?

I am experiencing a strange behavior with very basic web service development. This question might be dumb but I think someone would be able to explain this observation. I am developing a web service with a web method, MyWebMethod MyWebMethod(MyEnum Param, .....) Where, public enum MyEnum : int { Type_1 =1; Type_2 =...

Testing the client side of a web service without having the web service available.

I am developing a PHP script that has to make some calls to a web service. This web service is running on the LAN of our client. This means I do not have access to it yet. I will go to the client to test it, but would like to be able to test my code before I go all the way over there. Is there an easy way to set up some kind of fake web...