I am relatively new to web services and am wondering what the standard "best approach" is. Basically, the way things work is I need to have a task running the background constantly. The the web service will connect to the daemon and return with an appropriate response. Currently, the communication is over unix domain sockets (Linux is ...
The arguments about the simplicity of solutions using XML-RPC or REST are easy to understand and hard to argue with. I have often also heard arguments that the increased overhead of SOAP may significantly impact used bandwidth and possibly even latency. I would like to see the results of a test that quantifies the impact. Any one know...
We are looking for a reliable "current weather" web service for Europe, with city resolution. We only need the current weather. Since it is for a commercial web site, we don't mind paying a reasonable fee for the service. What are our options? What service would you recommend or avoid based on previous experience? Note: SOAP Web Serv...
Our web services are distributed across different servers for various reasons (such as decreasing latency to the client), and they're not always all up-to-date. Rather than throwing an exception when a method doesn't exist because the particular web service is too old, it would be nicer if we could have the client check if the service re...
We are setting up a new SharePoint for which we don't have a valid SSL certificate yet. I would like to call the Lists web service on it to retrieve some meta data about the setup. However, when I try to do this, I get the exception: The underlying connection was closed: Could not establish trust relationship for the SSL/TLS secure c...
Should I bind directly to objects returned from a webservice or should I have client-side objects that I bind to my gridcontrols? For instance if I have a service that returns object Car should I have a client side Car object that I populate with values from the webservice Car object? What is considered best-practice? In C# do I need to...
Hi Has anybody any useful links that can be used to consume a web service using flex? The easier the solution the better Thanks ...
I've written a control in C# that overrides the built-in DropDownList control. For this I need a javascript resource included, which I'm including as an embedded resource then adding the WebResource attribute, which works fine. However, I also need to reference a webservice, which I would normally include in the scriptmanager on the p...
I'm passing around some objects through web service and some of them contain java.sql.Date. Because Date doesn't have empty constructor it doesn't want to get serialized. First part of a question is easy: what is the best way to pass a date between client and service? Second part is bit trickier: Once I decide how to pass dates aroun...
Our CMS implements its own role based access control for content management and what not, much like all the other CMSs out there ;) I've recently been playing around with the idea of trying to implement an extension of this access control into our web service api, with the eventual idea of choosing which users have access to what method...
I want to use a WSDL SOAP based web service in Python. I have looked at the Dive Into Python code but the SOAPpy module does not work under Python 2.5. I have tried using suds which works partly, but breaks with certain types (suds.TypeNotFound: Type not found: 'item'). I have also looked at Client but this does not appear to support W...
I'm using C# and connecting to a WebService via an auto-generated C# proxy object. The method I'm calling can be long running, and sometimes times out. I get different errors back, sometimes I get a System.Net.WebException or a System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException. These exceptions have properties I can interrogate to find the spe...
We are struggling to configure our web app to be able to connect with web services via Spring WS. We have tried to use the example from the documentation of client-side Spring-WS, but we end up with a WebServiceTransportException. The XML config looks like this: <bean id="webServiceTemplate" class="org.springframework.ws.client.core.Web...
I have an application for Tomcat which needs to offer/consume web services. Since Java web services are a nightmare (xml, code generation, etc.) compared with what is possible in Python, I would like to learn from your experience using jython instead of java for offerring/consuming web services. What I have done so far involves adapting...
Is anyone aware of a (preferablly free) webservice that would accept a SOAP or REST request. This request would contain an IP address, and the service would return an approximation of that IP's location. EDIT: I need resolution down to the city of possible. ...
I am calling a WSDL web service from Python using SOAPpy. The call I need to make is to the method Auth_login. This has 2 arguments - the first, a string being the API key; the second, a custom type containing username and password. The custom type is called Auth_credentialsData which contains 2 values as stings - one for the username an...
Say I have a web service http://www.example.com/webservice.pl?q=google which returns text "google.com". I need to call this web service (http://www.example.com/webservice.pl) from a JavaScript module with a parameter (q=google) and then use the return value ("google.com") to do further processing. What's the simplest way to do this? I a...
My question is possibly a subtle one: Web services - are they extensions of the presentation/web layer? ..or are they extensions of the biz/data layer? That may seem like a dumb question. Web services are an extension of the web tier. I'm not so sure though. I'm building a pretty standard webform with some AJAX-y features, and it se...
Hello, Does adding a Web Service to my ASP.NET MVC project break the whole concept of MVC? That Web Service (WCF) depends on the Model layer from my MVC project to communicate with the back-end (so it looks to me like it needs to be part of the MVC solution). Should I add this to the Controller or Model layer? ...
It seems that anyone can snoop on incoming/outgoing .NET web service SOAP messages just by dropping in a simple SoapExtension into the bin folder and then plumbing it in using: <soapExtensionTypes> <add type="MyLoggingSoapExtension, SoapLoggingTools" priority="0" group="High" /> <soapExtensionTypes> Is there a way to prevent SOAP ex...