web-services

Serving lots of small files?

I am building a website which depends on serving lots of little mp3 files (approx 10-15KB each) quite quickly. Each file contains a word pronunciation, and 20-30 per user will be downloaded every minute they are using the site. Each user might download 200 a day, and I anticipate 50 simultaneous users. There will be approx. 15,000 separa...

Advice on app using gps-sensor, compass-sensor and webservices via SOAP messages.

Hey folks, I really like your site and I think this is the place where I find answers to my questions! I am planning an app, which shall do a couple of things but since I'm kind of lost in all the information conserning Android I really need some advice what I have to look out for and which of my goals might turn out tricky. I want to do...

learning the basics of WCF

For those just starting to learn WCF, what are the major/basic things I should look at and learn first? What concepts would you recommend to learn first, to be productive in WCF? What resources/articles/training/books would you recommend to someone learning WCF? In C#, for example, one can learn LINQ at a later stage. Along similar li...

Changing the default XML namespace prefix generated with JAXWS

Hi, I am using JAXWS to generate a WebService client for a Java Application we're building. When JAXWS build its XMLs to use in SOAP protocol, it generates the following namespace prefix: <env:Envelope xmlns:env="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"&gt; <env:Body ...> <!-- body goes here --> </env:Body> </env:Envelop...

Android app using data from internet resource

Hi, I want to write an Android application that can display some data received(polled) from an internet resource. I guess that I need to write some logic that will periodically call and get data from some endpoint, parse the response and display it. Is there a good tutorial for all this steps? I know very little about Android programm...

How should I connect to .NET 1.1 Webservice from a .NET CF 3.5 Windows Application?

Hello, I have an windows application in .NET Compact Framework 1.0. I have migrated the application to .NET CF 3.5 (VS 2008) using the .NET conversion wizard. The CF 1.0 application connects to a web service developed in .NET 1.1. When I tried to connect to the same web service in CF 3.5 application it results in "Remote Server is not r...

Sharepoint web service(UserGroup) addGroup function

I tried using the addGroup() web method from web service from userGroup web service offered by Sharepoint Server. As stated by MSDN, the following codes were required (using visual studio C# programming platform Web_Reference_Folder_Name.UserGroup usrgrpService = new Web_Reference_Folder_Name.UserGroup(); usrgrpService.Credentials= Sys...

Transfer large messaeges with Apache CXF

I'm writing a CXF WS to upload some large files - up to 1GB. In most cases they won't be >10-15MB, but the problem is that it is ineffective to load the file and send it as regular byte[] using the standard binding. For that reason a custom interceptor might be needed but I'm not sure it is the only option as well as how to write it. 10x...

Best asp.net WCF application design

I am working with a financial application and am looking for the best solution for designing my application. We have 100's of stored procedures where most/all of our business logic sits. We have WCF web services projects built using Web Service Software Factory (http://servicefactory.codeplex.com/). We have stored procedures built for...

The future of Microsoft Web services

I've just recently watched a couple of videos about Microsoft Web Services. The videos were old and when I searched the web I don't see much about this technology that's recent. Can someone out there explain in just a few lines if this technology has been replaced by another technology and if not then what's really the purpose of the t...

Is there such software/library to convert REST to SOAP and vice versa?

I have some back end web services, SOAP web services. I would like to create an android client to use these. I'm under the impression that SOAP style web services are non trivial to setup on android, and I would prefer to use REST if possible Is there any utility that can convert REST calls to SOAP and back again? Or will I need to cre...

Java Web Services and BPEL

Hi, I'm struggling a little attempting to consume this web service (it is homework related but not actual homework). This BPEL process seems to provide asynchronous callbacks, I'm just not sure exactly how it is to be used. The wsimport generated the classes below: > AttributedQName.java > AttributedURI.java > EndpointReferenceType.jav...

Create a web service with XML response.

What is the easiest way to create a web service with XML response? Use WCF to create the web service? (seems really complicated) If i want to use WCF to create my web service, where do I start? ...

good webservice for gold rates

I am developing a jewellery website for my client. And he want to show gold rate as per the current day. So i am looking for a good webservice that returns this... ...

how to change the content place in html pages without changing header and footer

I have five html pages ,all pages have same search tab,header,footer, my question is when enter particular searchtext and click search only the content place where the output will be displayed has to be changed in the html pages without change in header and footer. I am using html ,javascript,jquery on clientside and webservices with ...

SAAJ support for MTOM

I'm working on this client developed entirely using the SAAJ [1.3.4] library. To optimise the transfer of data as attachments, i'm working on adding MTOM support to my client application. However, after much trying and failing, i've managed to create a multipart request but the web-service server couldn't extract the attachment. on readi...

External DNS lookup web service (NSLOOKUP / DiG)

Several sites offer hostname to IP conversions, or in their wording: Query a DNS domain nameserver to lookup and find IP address information of computers in the internet. Convert a host or domain name into an IP address. However, I haven't been able to find any free webservices offering this functionality. I've stumbled upo...

Troubleshoot | Webservice building using ANT

Hi, I've been given a Web-service written in Java using the metro web-stack. Now, I've written a ANT script to build the WSDL and generate a war file with the contents and deploy into my tomcat. When I run the server, it doesn't recognize the WSDL, is this a correct process? How do I deploy the WSDL and then generate the client stubs...

read http custom header from asp.net web service

cant read http custome header "MSISDN" from my web service ... same code works on regular asp.net page. Can anyone shade a light on that subject ? ...

If SOAP is now considered overengineered over REST why isn't WCF ?

I'm amazed that years over years IT pretend to simplify communication or software design and a few years later it declare it was over-engineered. EJB, SOAP, so looking at all the WCF stuffs do we as users (not as Microsoft or IBM who need to sell new stuffs) really need it ? Update: this is a concrete example http://www.go4answers.com/...