>From the 2.7.17 doc - take a look at page 46, How to create a stand alone
>server.
Basically -
mySoapClass myObj;
myObj.bind(NULL,port,100);
for(;;){
myObj.accept();
myObj.serve();
myObj.destroy();
}
Just copy the binary to a shared folder, run & pass in or set port and then
point the client to the server's address.
Best of luck.
--- In gsoap@yahoogroups.com, "bhwit...@..." <bhwit...@...> wrote:
>
>
>
> Thanks for the reply. I'm glad to hear that gSOAP can do what I require of
> it, but now there's the question of --how?
>
> I have the 2.7.17 User's Guide. All 268 pages of it. I'm making deliberate,
> albeit slow progress on my app.
>
> Recently, believing that I can ultimately make a program listen on a port for
> inbound XML, I'm writing a test program that will load a particular XML from
> a local file and send it to my "listener".
>
> I have been reading "7.5.4 Deserializing C/C++ Data from XML". I have to
> confess that when following the example on pg 75, I'm stuck at line1:
>
> myClass obj;
>
> Of course I see that this is declaring an object of type myClass. The
> difficulty I'm having is that, given the WSDL from which I have derived my
> software, there are hundreds of generated classes. Of them I do not know
> enough to choose the right one.
>
> I see my generated software defines classes such as these:
>
> ns__MyRequestType
> ns__MyResponseType
> ns__ResultType
> ns2__SenderType
> ns2__AAAType
> ns2__BBBType
> ns2__CCCType -- multiple of these, corresponding to types within my WSDL.
>
> I could list many many more types, but the point is that there are many of
> them, and so a line like:
>
> myClass obj;
>
> becomes much less helpful without knowing what KIND of object I'm expected to
> declare. The example in the docs that I am referring to goes on to call
>
> soap.is = cin; // read from cin
> if (soap_get_myClass(&soap,&obj,"myClass",NULL)==NULL)
> {
> ... error ...
> }
>
> so I see that the XML is (or will be) read from CIN. I will instead be
> reading from a local file, but I can handle that difference. The question I
> am now hoping to get a little help on is, given my XML file to be loaded (and
> ultimately SENT as a request), which of my many classes is "myClass" ?
>
> Should it correspond to the OUTERMOST element of my XML file, such as an
> ns2__AAAType, or should it correspond to perhaps ns__MyRequestType because
> I'm going to use it to make a request?
>
> Is there some resource that addresses such basic questions as these? I
> recognize that the 2.7.17 User Guide will be invaluable to be eventually, but
> at the moment I am not knowledgeable enough to use that document. I cannot
> separate the wheat from the chaff because I don't yet know what wheat looks
> like...
>
> I do appreciate your help and input.
>
> Brian Withun
>
>
> --- In gsoap@yahoogroups.com, Benoit Callebaut <benoit.callebaut@> wrote:
> >
> > bhwithun@ a écrit :
> > >
> > > Can gSOAP be used without a web server?
> > >
> > Yes, look at the docs. I do it under Linux.and other people are doing it
> > under Windows.
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm trying to create a Windows service that listens on a port for
> > > inbound XML sent over HTTP and I want to use gSOAP to do all the heavy
> > > XML lifting.
> > >
> > > The problem is that all the examples and illustrations I find
> > > (understandably) refer to a context of gSOAP behind a web server.
> > >
> > > Without a web server (or CGI) I'm not sure if I should even be using
> > > soap_serve()
> > >
> > A CGI implies using a Web server, otherwise it is not a CGI
> > >
> > >
> > > I have a socket listener which recognizes the incoming messages, but
> > > I'm stuck when trying to connect that with gSOAP.
> > >
> > > Brian Withun
> > >
> > >
> >
>
