soap

What is the best practice in defining a soap service (generic vs. specific operation)?

Hi all. My situation is as follows: I have a normalized database, in which I hold geographic information about airports. The structure is: airport --is in--> city --is in--> country --is in--> continent Now I want to let users administrate this data, without giving them direct access to the database. We need to offer this administra...

REST / SOAP endpoints for a WCF service

Hi, I have a WCF service and I want to expose it as both a RESTfull service and as a SOAP service. Anyone has done something like this before? ...

Using SOAP to expose CRUD operations

Is exposing CRUD operations through SOAP web services a bad idea? My instinct tells me that it is not least of which because the overhead of doing database calls overhead could be huge. I'm struggling to find documentation for/against this (anti)pattern so I was wondering if anyone could point me to some documentation or has an opinion o...

Expose Java class as SOAP WebService - how ?

I am looking for a framework to turn given Java class into WebService (may be with some limitations on method parameters etc) Thanks ...

What "Attributes" can Serena Mariner's SOAP API touch in UpdateInvestment() ?

I'm trying to write an interface between a home-grown project management system and Serena Mariner. (The bigwigs like to read Mariner, the worker bees like to write to the home grown system.) How can I (programmatically?) figure out what Attribute Keys are available? I'm actually writing the interface in PHP, but any advice would be m...

Java webservice (soap) client - use certificates

I am trying to connect to a webservice over ssl with a client certificate. Is there an elegant way of doing this apart from shoving things like "javax.net.ssl.keyStore" into System.properties. Any pointers to code examples would be appreciated. ...

Ruby SOAP SSL Woes

I have a SOAP client in Ruby that I'm trying to get working with a Ruby SOAP server, to no avail. The client works fine over SSL with a Python SOAP server, but not with the Ruby version. Here's what the server looks like: require 'soap/rpc/standaloneServer' require 'soap/rpc/driver' require 'rubygems' require 'httpclient' def cert(file...

how to SOAP with PHP to a SAP Erecruitment database

Our team is working on SAP and getting a website frontend written with PHP and MySQL to connect with the recruitment database on SAP ... we've tried making SOAP clients and everything but it seems we're missing something.. what are the steps to ensure that they can synchronize with or without a wsdl.. ...

How to access SOAP services from iPhone

Hi, I'm planning to develop an app for the iPhone and that app would have to access a couple of SOAP services. While doing some basic checking in the iPhone SDK I was not able to find any support for accessing SOAP services, a bit of Googling lead to the conclusion that there is no support for SOAP in the iPhone SDK. So if I do want t...

What's the best SOAP client library for Python, and where is the documentation for it?

I've never used SOAP before and I'm sort of new to Python. I'm doing this to get myself acquainted with both technologies. I've installed SOAPlib and I've tried to read their Client documentation, but I don't understand it too well. Is there anything else I can look into which is more suited for being a SOAP Client library for Python?...

REST and SOAP

Can somebody explain what is REST and what is SOAP in plain english? And how Web Services work? ...

How force a maximum string length in a C# web service object property?

In this class for example, I want to force a limit of characters the first/last name can allow. public class Person { public string FirstName { get; set; } public string LastName { get; set; } } Is there a way to force the string limit restriction for the first or last name, so when the client serializes this before sending ...

Testing custom SOAP Headers in ASMX.

The test form generated by ASMX is pretty handy for testing operations. However, there is no apparent way to include SOAP headers. How can you test your headers without programming a client to use the service? ...

Tool to Peek into WCF SOAP message

I know there is a tool that enables me to see what actually gets sent/received in my WCF application, that is it let's me see the actual SOAP messages being passed down the wire. The problem is I don't remember what that tool was called, and my Google skills are not of much help either. Anyone? ...

how can i use sharepoint (via soap?) from python ?

I want to use Sharepoint with python (C-Python) Has anyone tried this before ? ...

DOTNET SOAP Not Recognizing "ArrayOf_xsd_anyType"

Getting the following error when I try to execute a SOAP request using .net: failed: System.InvalidOperationException : There is an error in XML document (1, 776). ----> System.InvalidOperationException : The specified type was not recognized: name='ArrayOf_xsd_anyType', namespace='http://soap.ddr.opentext.com', at <multiRef xmlns=''>...

.Net webservice, how to access...?

Note: I am just consuming webservice I have no control over webservice code. So in .net 2.0 I reference the webservice and see a class in the webservice namespace, say foobar. It's defined as: public class foobar : System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol but in .net 3.5 when i add a reference to the same webservice I no ...

PHP + WSDL + SOAP - how do I display a webservice result on screen

I'm just starting out in PHP and would like some advice as to how to get a webservice result to display in an array. For example I would like to print the currency codes into an array from the following WSDL $wsdl="http://www.webservicex.com/CurrencyConvertor.asmx?WSDL This is what I have so far but nothing really happens: $proxy...

How is the max size of a SOAP message determined?

I'm using NuSOAP on PHP 5.2.6 and I'm seeing that the max message size is only 1000 bytes (which makes it tough to do anything meaningful). Is this set in the endpoint's WSDL or is this something I can configure in NuSOAP? ...

WS* vs REST = horses for courses ... or not?

Ok so I've implemented both REST and SOAP services and I like both depending on the context. For me, WS* is great when I want an explicit contract between the server and the client e.g. for sensitive information or for mission critical stuff. REST on the other hand whilst flexible in terms of the schema definition, is in my mind more ide...