So the actual question is really "how do I create a web service in something that is not .NET". Which by the way is a fair question ;)
Java is probably the easiest answer (if C# is your primary language, doing Java should be fairly simple). There are multiple web service frameworks from Java you can use. I guess it also depends on what other "stuff" your hoster have enabled on your server. Something more fun would perhaps be to build something in Python or Ruby, a quick google search show that there are heaps of frameworks to help you with this as well. As for hosting XAP the only thing you need to do is set up the MIME type: * .xap* to *application/x-silverlight-app*. I've done some work with a Silverlight service talking to an Oracle (Java) web service, hosted by Apache. The only problem was with UTF8 byte order marks (the Silverlight WCF stack automatically add the byte order mark), but the Java service didn't like that ;) Cheers, Jonas On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 8:46 PM, .net noobie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you can host a silverlight app on any webserver as far as i can see, the > .xap file is downloaded and run in the users web browser > > > On 8/10/08, Stephen Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hey all, >> >> Was just wondering if anyone had thought of (or tried?) a way of running >> Silverlight on a purely LAMP system? >> >> I use a webhost that uses Apache and MySQL. I'd like to be able to use >> MySQL for the backend but am not sure how I'd get around not being able to >> run my webservice on a non-microsoft web server. I'm assuming that I'd have >> to write a java (or some other similar technology) to get that working. >> >> So the webserver would of course serve my Silverlight app, which would >> make calls to the webservice which talks to the MySQL server. >> >> cheers, >> Stephen >> ------------------------------------------------------------------- >> OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to >> the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. >> Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net > > > > > -- > .net noobie™ > > This Framework is not Big Enough for the both of us... > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to > the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. > Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net ------------------------------------------------------------------- OzSilverlight.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. Powered by mailenable.com - List managed by www.readify.net
