web-services

Flex/AIR + Catalyst: What's the best way to get them to talk to each other?

What is the best way to get Adobe Flex/AIR to communicate with perl Catalyst? We are currently using Catalyst::Plugin::XMLRPC on the Catalyst side and as3-rpclib on the Flex/AIR side. That works fine, but I'd rather take as3-rpclib out of the picture and use a method that is native to Flex. From what I can tell, it's native compnone...

Web page load time tracking sites

I want to track and analyze web page load times on my user's systems. I ran across this article http://www.panalysis.com/tracking-webpage-load-times.php that uses Google analytics to track pages, but it's too coarse for my needs. Are there any sites out there that specifically let you track page load times using a JavaScript snippet yo...

How to start aspnet_wp.exe without firing Application_Start event.

I'm trying to debug a web service (Windows XP SP3, VS 2008, ASP.NET 2, VB.NET). For most of it, if the asp.net worker process is already loaded, I can start the Windows form that calls the web service, attach to aspnet_wp.exe in Visual Studio, and then debug to my heart's content, but catching the Application Start event in global.asax ...

WCF and embedded systems

I am working on a project that involves an embedded system which runs a non-microsoft OS with a C program for the application and am developing .NET software for its end user applications. For remote configuring with the .NET software (which can go across firewalls), I am considering using WCF. I know only a little about WCF so far but...

How do you return a user defined type from a WCF service?

I have a WCF service hosted in IIS. The intention is for clients to make a call and receive a custom class that is defined in another project/dll. I have generated a service client using the svcutil.exe. The problem is this autogenerated client contains a new partial / proxy definition for the class I am trying to return from the service...

Crash writing simple WSO2/C++ web service client

Has any been able to successfully run with a client using the WSO2/C++ web services package? I've tried just about everything I can think of yet every time I try to run a very simple client I get a crash. Here's some sample code from one of their example programs... #include <stdio.h> #include <WSRESTClient.h> #include <OMElement.h> #...

REST web service accepting a POST using Restlet - Best Practice

I have my resource and they typical overridden method to handle POST requests. public void acceptRepresentation(Representation rep) { if (MediaType.APPLICATION_XML.equals(rep.getMediaType())) { //Do stuff here } else { //complain! } } What I want to know is the best practice to handle my packet of XML. I see a lo...

How to guarantee delivery of data in a Compact Framework Webservice call?

We have a mobile Application in a very unsteady WLan Environment. Sending Data to a webserver could result in a timeout or in a lost WLan connection. How do we ensure, that our data is delivered correctly? Is there a possibility of having Web Services Reliable Messaging (WSRM) on the device? MSMQ is no option at the moment. ...

Java Web Service framework/library, which is a better one and why ?

Currently I am evaluating number of web service frameworks in Java. I need web service framework that will help me to expose some functionality of existent application running on JBoss, The application is mostly developed using Spring and POJOs (no EJBs). What I need is a framework having following properties: It should provide tools ...

How can I use DIME with WSE 3.0?

I need to make calls to a legacy SOAP API that only supports DIME, but DIME is not supported in WSE 3.0. Unfortunately, WSE 2.0, which supports DIME, is not supported in conjunction with Visual Studio 2005. I understand the reasons for moving to MTOM, but the need to communicate with legacy services does not disappear because a new sta...

Webservice help

How would I refactor this to get it to return a string not a dataset? [WebMethod] public DataSet GetPONumber(string Database) { SqlConnection sqlConn = new SqlConnection(); sqlConn.ConnectionString = GetConnString(Database); // build query string strSQL = @" A SELECT QUERY!!!!!...

How to generate Java code from an XSD that includes MSFT Serialization: GUID datatypes?

I have used the Jaxme 2 libraries before to generate Java code from .XSD files without a problem. I'm currently encountering a problem generating Java from an XSD file that contains a http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/ namespace. Some sample code from my .XSD is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <xs:schema xmlns...

Deploying a SharePoint WebPart with its Web Service Reference

Hi there, I'm trying to built a SharePoint Web Part that has as part of it a service reference to Another SharePoint server that I need to call from within vb code. However when I try to call the remote web service for the first time, I get the following in the log: Could not find default endpoint element that references contract 'Li...

.Net WFC/Web service exception handling design pattern

I'm trying to come up with a simple, easy to use design pattern for error handling in a .net wcf service (specifically a silverlight enabled wcf service). If an exception gets thrown in the service method the silverlight application will see a CommunicationException stating "The remote server returned an error: NotFound ---> " and possib...

What is the best way to add summary tags to a generated webservice proxy class?

Aloha I'm referencing an external webservice in my .NET 2.0 application. Adding a service reference generated a nice proxy class for me. I'd like to add ///<summary> style documentation to this. If the service reference is updated, all my shiny comments are gone. Is there any solution to this? -Edoode ...

B2B web service using windows credentials?

Is this wise, what potential issues could you run into? ...

Reporting Services keeps erasing my dataset parameters

I'm using a web service and every time I change something on the dataset, it erases all my parameters. The weird thing is, I can execute the web service call from the data tab and it prompts for all my parameters, but if I click to edit the data the list is empty or if I try to preview the report it blows up because parameters are missi...

python web-services: returning a fault from the server using ZSI

I'm interested in writing a python client for a web-service, and for testing purposes it would be very interesting also to have a simple stub server. I'm using python 2.3, and ZSI 2.0. My problem is that I do not manage to return an exception from the server. If I raise an exception of the type used for the soap fault in the wsdl, I ge...

Computer A can reach network web service, while computer B can't. Any ideas?

You'll have to pardon me as I wasn't sure where to place this. This overlaps in the areas of C# Web Services and Network/Security management I suppose. I have a server that runs various web applications. One of them is a web service. The account everything runs under is a local account on the machine. It is not a domain account. I don't...

Handling the Same Class Definition From Multiple Web Services

The situation: We have a library project that houses much of our code for the various integrations we work on. Many of the integrations consume web service apis, and my supervisor doesn't want 5 gazillion web service references added to the project. What we generally do, then, is add a reference to a new project and copy the Reference...