Re: web service question (weblogic / j2ee related)

cangoce@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Now suppose a third party client wants to use this web-service. Suppose
the third party client is a C or C++ program. How are they supposed to
access this new web service I have developed. Do they have to manually
open a TCP/IP connection and manually send request? And then the
client would receive the response and manually parse the resulting HTML
for his response?

Is this what is expected or am I missing something?

You should most definitely look up a web services guide or tutorial if you are going to work with it.

If you look a the spec for f.ex. the SOAP part of web services, (WS is mostly made up of three components SOAP, WSDL and UDDI, where SOAP is the RPC part of it.). You will see that 90 percent of it is about serialisation of data types. This means that all WS programming is done by using a WS or SOAP library, which will deal with this for you. WSDL is the definition of the contract of the server which you give to the client so its WS tools can generate a proper SOAP stub for you. The rest you need to read about.

/tom
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