One problem I've been toying with off and on is a service that requires my server to produce a screenshot of a webpage at a given url. The problem is that I don't have any idea how I would accomplish this. I mostly use a LAMP software stack, so answers that were given with that in mind would be the most helpful. Again the basic requireme...
Is there a specific book/s dedicated specifically for development in Asp.Net web-services? Most of the books has web-services as a chapter/section only and not a whole book. ...
We've inherited a WCF web service that has a custom MessageFormatter that constructs a custom Message subclass in the SerializeReply Method. class OurMessageFormatter : MessageFormatter { public Message SerializeReply(MessageVersion messageVersion, object[] parameters, object result) { OurResponse ourResponse = (OurResponse) res...
Hi All, I have created a web service in .net 2.0, C#. I need to log some information to a file whenever different methods are called by the web service clients. The problem comes when one user process is writing to a file and another process tries to write to it. I get the error "The process cannot access the file because it is being ...
Please suggest some good resources to start writing Java Web services. ...
What's the best tool that you use to monitor Web Service, SOAP, WCF, etc. traffic that's coming and going on the wire? I have seen some tools that made with Java but they seem to be a little crappy. What I want is a tool that sits in the middle as a proxy and does port redirection (which should have configurable listen/redirect ports). A...
When developing distributed applications, all written in Java by the same company, would you choose Web Services or RMI? What are the pros and cons in terms of performance, loose coupling, ease of use, ...? Would anyone choose WS? Can you build a service-oriented architecture with RMI? ...
Are there any good webservices out there that provide good lookup information for Countries and States/Provinces? If so what ones do you use? ...
I have a Web Service (ASMX) with a few Web methods on our production Web server. On a separate internal Web server (which isn't publicly exposed) I have another Web site that will use the ASMX's public web methods. What are some of the best ways to secure the Web service such that only the internal Web server can access the Web Service...
I'm currently looking for ways to create automated tests for a JAX-RS (Java API for RESTful Web Services) based web service. I basically need a way to send it certain inputs and verify that I get the expected responses. I'd prefer to do this via JUnit, but I'm not sure how that can be achieved. What approach do you use to test your we...
I know that the USPS provides an handy XML over HTTP webservice for address information. What other webservices do you know of and use? What webservices do you wish you could access but can't find? ...
I need to consume an external web service from my VB6 program. I want to be able to deploy my program without the SOAP toolkit, if possible, but that's not a requirement. I do not have the web service source and I didn't create it. It is a vendor-provided service. So outside of the SOAP toolkit, what is the best way to consume a web ser...
What is the easiest way to call a web service from Excel (I am using version 2002)? Please, no third party tools or libraries. This has to be easy with some VBA that I can paste there, use it, and ever touch. ...
I have a website (ASP.NET) and some winforms(.Net 2.0) for a project (written in C#). I use the webservice (IIS6) for task that both require like sending email inside the business. I think Webservice is nice but I would like from your experience what should and what should not be in a webservice? ...
I am trying to mock-up an API and am using separate apps within Django to represent different web services. I would like App A to take in a link that corresponds to App B and parse the response (json). Is there a way to dynamically construct the url to App B so that I can test the code in development and not change to much before going...
Hi, I have no experience with web services. Historically I've built client-server systems using proprietary communication protocols (even they happen to be XML). I just spent a few hours looking over Axis2 and it sent a shudder down my spine. The learning curve of WS scares me, and seeing all that XML surround so little functionality ma...
I have code that references a web service, and I'd like the address of that web service to be dynamic (read from a database, config file, etc.) so that it is easily changed. One major use of this will be to deploy to multiple environments where machine names and IP addresses are different. The web service signature will be the same acr...
I want to call a web service, but I won't know the url till runtime. Whats the best way to get the web reference in, without actually committing to a url. What about having 1 client hit the same web service on say 10 different domains? ...
Hi Guys, i just wondering how the .net wcf application caching is implemented ?? It's single thread or multiple thread?? and if it's multiple thread how we enforce application caching to be single thread. Thank You :) ...
I've been given the task of laying the groundwork of a SOA for my client. The goal is to open up various processes in an end-client independent way and also to make data available offline e.g. for reps visiting customers. I do have extensive experience with J2EE (Websphere) and web services but I would appreciate advice on how to build ...