Suggestions for building a web service

2011-03-01 Thread Eric Cobb
I've been tasked with building a very simple web service into our existing application. Basically, we have another department here that needs to know if a user is set up in our application before they set that user up in their application, so they need a way to hand us a username and we

Re: Suggestions for building a web service

2011-03-01 Thread Michael Grant
Can you just target the cfc directly and pass the method and params in as part of the query string? It would save an extra step. blabla.com/myCFC.cfc?method=validateothervars=othervaluesetc=etc On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Eric Cobb cft...@ecartech.com wrote: I've been tasked with

Re: Suggestions for building a web service

2011-03-01 Thread Russ Michaels
Eric, CF has web service capability built right in, you don;t have to build your own custom parsing solution like that. These articles should put you on the right track, http://www.devarticles.com/c/a/ColdFusion/Creating-a-Web-Service-with-ColdFusion-the-Basics/

Re: Suggestions for building a web service

2011-03-01 Thread Eric Cobb
Thanks for the links Russ! Thanks, Eric Cobb ECAR Technologies, LLC http://www.ecartech.com http://www.cfgears.com On 3/1/2011 8:46 AM, Russ Michaels wrote: Eric, CF has web service capability built right in, you don;t have to build your own custom parsing solution like that. These