Re: Web Services book

2003-03-12 Thread Michael Yuan
> I wrote a book on Ant with Erik Hatcher last year (product placement:java > development with ant, http://manning.com/antbook). You can look at our > progress through Ant's CVS log and the bugzilla system: we found oodles I found Erik and Steve's ANT book excellent. Before I read that book, I wa

Re: Please help::Axis and MapPoint.NET

2003-03-10 Thread Michael Yuan
Yes, it does work. But you need a hacked HTTP transport for HTTP Digest Auth required by MP.NET. See details on the MP.NET demo app page: http://demo.mappoint.net/ Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page. There is an example using Axis. cheers Michael --

RE: examples

2003-02-28 Thread Michael Yuan
Just a few more comments ... > Google's Web API is free, supplied as an experiment and to promote goodwill. > But the Web service actually undermines Google's business model (collecting > revenues from advertising), since the API users don't see ads. Hmm, but Google WS does require registration

RE: JDBC-based Web Services (?)

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Yuan
If all you want is a data service, you probablly should NOT expose the connection object itself to the user. Just let the user say what she wants to query and you can manage the SQL templates/connection pools on the server side. Plus, I do not see a way to serilaize the "connection" object in a SO

Re: Light Weight Client using Axis

2003-02-14 Thread Michael Yuan
Use kSOAP. It is less than 100 KB. :) It is not as fully featured as Axis but it gets the job done in most cases. I have been using kSOAP to access Axis and JWSDP servers with no problems. kSOAP does not come with a client stub generator itself. But most IDEs (SUNOne, WSDD) have included their ow