Bill,
Good question. The entire purpose (albeit realized yet or not) of web
services is to provide complete interoperability of discrete
functionality between development platforms. This is accomplished by
translating all data to and from a web service into a specific encoding
type (for simple or complex datatypes) that is universal. The recipient
of that data will decode it into its native format to use/understand as
necessary.
Now, I've run into a few problems as well with some of the web services
on xMethods.com as well from opposing technologies. I have not yet
looked through the WSDL to figure out what is different from the ones
working and the ones that are not, nor have I had a chance to try
implementing those same web services in other technologies, such as
NET.
There are some known incompatibilities between platforms with web
services (of which there are not supposed to be) between .NET and CFMX,
specifically with datasets (query recordsets). The only workaround at
this point is to convert the recordset into a different format to be
returned. I am hoping for a service pack to fix this soon.
--Paul
Paul W. Wille [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-Original Message-
From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:02 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: DWMX Webservice Web services types
I have a question that I'm curious about.
I've been playing around with DWMX to put webservices into a page since
its pretty snazzy.
I goto www.xmethods.com and I notice they have like 4 or 5 different
type of services. Cold, .net, soap, glue etc etc
I cant always the methods onto the page via DWMX. Is this because CFMX
doesn't support .net services yet?
or is this a bug in DWMX or what?
Enlighten me those who have not played with webservices yet.
PS this is a prime topical to write and FAQ about for the HOF lists if
nobody else does I'll write about it once I figure it all our myself :)
Danks
Bill Wheatley
Senior Database Developer
Macromedia Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer
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