Are you able to send web services from Lotus Notes?
We have a booking system that is hosted in Lotus Notes which we are hoping to push some content to a web based system. We were initially thinking a .csv file with the data but were wondering whether it's possible to push this data using web services instead?
You mean you want to consume a web service from Lotus Notes? The answer is yes, it is actually pretty easy, and well documented in the Domino Designer help:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/domhelp/v8r0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.designer.domino.main.doc%2FH_INCORPORATING_WEB_SERVICES_LIBRARY.html
Another good link is this one:
Creating your first Web Service provider and consumer in LotusScript and Java.
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How Drupal can read the external web services? example:
this web service xml:
"www.mysite.com/dabs/xml_view/xml/bank_id:10/updated:1".
this link is a web services xml, I want to consume it in drupal.
I found drupal can create Web services from its contents, but I do not know how he read the other webservices.
how drupal can read, modify those tags, put, post, delete ..... ??
Usually, consuming a Web Service requires developing a client application. In the case of a Drupal site, it should be done a Drupal custom module. Except for the integration of custom code in Drupal and usage of its API/mechanism to display information on pages, store them, etc. this would standard PHP coding.
There is also two module that are supposed to help you with that, or even remove the need to develop a custom module. Unfortunately, they both have the same name: Web service client. One is https://www.drupal.org/project/wsclient, the other is https://www.drupal.org/project/clients.
The actual complexity will likely be in consuming the service properly. For that, you need good understanding on usage of XML and HTTP Requests, and preferably good documentation of the web service (incl. data format and meaning of the various values in the XML).
Use web service client module in drupal
https://www.drupal.org/project/wsclient
Trying to understand which of the better modules to use for my page's specific need. Services module is popular, but that seems more for providing service, where the Web Service Client is good for consuming a web service.
Here's the requirement:
On the web page, I've got a form whose fields (location, service areas, region, indicators, etc) are to be built dynamically and some are selectable based on other selections. (So choosing worldwide would make Hubzone 8A not appear.)
Another team built the SOAP web service, it sits on another server outside the web server. What they delivered to me is a URL to invoke, basically an XML file:
http://webserviceurl.com:52901/navigator/NavigatorServices?wsdl
(Obviously, I just can't use the Feeds module to import the XML manually, right? The whole point of the web service approach is that as the data in the web service is updated, the Process form will by dynamic.)
So I'm really at the beginning of this. Need some guidance.
Web Service Client and SOAP Client are the ones that should do the work for you.
If you find it difficult to understand how to use them, you can simply use nuSOAP library + some PHP code inside a module. This article provides a good tutorial about providing and consuming Web Services using nuSOAP.
PHP provides a SOAP API. So you can simply create a module using this API (and Drupal Form API).
I am new to developing web services using java. I have an academic project where I need to do dynamic service composition. For that I can't directly create a service-client for a particular service because if I do so then that client will call that particular service only. Client need to search various web services and then out of those services select any one at run time and also call that service at run time.
I was able to develop the web service(JAX-WS) using Eclipse(indigo), I also created the client for that web service and every thing is working fine. Now my problem is that while creating the client I am hard coding the client to call that particular web service only(since I am creating the client using the WSDL file of the service). However I actually need to call any one of the searched service, but for that I need to publish the service some where then discover it and then call it.
I tried publishing the service to juddiv3. But on juddiv3 I could only publish the sample service supplied with the juddiv3. When I try to publish service created by me then it is not getting displayed in the group of published services.
Is there any other UDDI server which I could install on my local machine and then publish and discover the service from that. Also I was not able to figure out how to create a client that will modify itself at run time to call any one service out of various searched services.
Kindly provide the necessary steps and code.
Thanks
You can use jUDDI (http://juddi.apache.org/ ).
juddi is based on UDDI v2.0, v 3.0 .
Here, you can publish as well as discover your web service.
For integration, you have to make some application which integrates with jUDDI.
But I think for your academic project, and for your purpose, jUDDI is best suitable! ( :) )
jUDDI has a boat load of examples in the source code trunk. You may want to check them out. It's difficult to guess what the problem is from the little information you've provided. Consider contacting the jUDDI team for further assistance. http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/juddi/trunk/juddi-examples/. There's also additional document for working with UDDI in the jUDDI user's guide, which is at the jUDDI web site
You cannot directly publish on jUDDI. You need to create publisher entities in jUDDI server also. You'll find Rename4Sales and Rename4Marketing examples in 'Classes' folder in the standalone server's juddi application. Use these XMLs as your basis and create your own entity. You also need to configure the server's login credentials.
I suggest you follow the tutorials on jUDDI blog.
Lets have an example scenario:
Client opens a web site and finds the sum of two numbers which he enters from the textboxes.Then clicks on the ADD button.Two parameters are HTTP GET'ed to server where PHP code is written to add the numbers and result is echo'ed.
Based on this scenario could anybody explain the difference between Web services and application?
In your case if you have User Interface for providing two numbers and then getting the result, it should be called a web application. But if you have an API exposed to receive two numbers and return result over http , then it should be called a web service.
At low level, both Web application and web service are kind of same thing. But the main point is that web services are for machine/program to machine/program communication whereas Web application is for Users.
I'd say that web applications are intended for users and web services are intended for other applications. That's the most important difference. Web applications usually present data in HTML which looks nice to the user and web services usually present data in XML which easy to parse by other applications.
A person drives a car. That car could be powered by an internal combustion engine, electric motor, or nuclear reactor. The power source doesn't matter to the driver though, as all they need to see are the controls and the road ahead.
The application is the car. Web services are the nuclear reactor.
To add 2 no.s we write a web service, to subtract we write a diffrent web service, however calculator is an web application that uses add,subtract and many other webservices in combine.
Lets take an example of Google search.
We can use Google search in two ways. First, we can visit http://www.google.com and put out query for search. Google the returns the result. Second, we can integrate Google Search in our websites with custom search API.
In first case Google Search is acting as web application while in second example it is acting as web service.
Here we can point out few differences,
User interacts with web application while machine interacts with web service.
To access web application, one must visit application. While web service can be access from anywhere (from any application which integrated it). We don't need to visit the service explicitly.
A webservice is equivalent to a method in java that has a web wrapper around it. It lives on the server and it can be sent data / queried etc. and may or may not return a result. It does not have any front end it can only be accessed via http get, put, delete etc.
A web Application is a fully functional piece of software that lives on a sever that is designed to help people achieve a task. This would have a front end that would allow users to interact with it / enter data etc.
A web application could use multiple webservices to achieve its goal / end result
There is little difference between web application and web services.
Web Application: In web application when user request any data then the server embeds the response into some HTML and forward it to the user and on browser the HTML is rendered.
While in web services it's done differently that when some user requests for some data then the server returns it a json or XML array of objects and the data can be displayed by anyway the web designers wants.
Thanks Hope it resolves the matter.
Web service is for application consumption , invoked through web application
To communicate with webservice data should be sent as SOAP message or as REST i.e XML over HTTP
Most of the times web service is not part of application because to facilitate the use by other web applications and it is not for direct consumption to end users
Web application is for human consumption invoked directly by GUI which may or may not use web service for giving response
I am familiar with SOAP web services, and have done some PUT/GET/POST verbs in REST web services. Somewhere I read that your REST web service can return a code if something goes wrong at the web service, but can it return twice?
By that I mean: supposed your REST web service is querying a database and it is doing a lazy load, so it is taking a while. You intend to return an array of values from the database back to the client that called the REST web service. But while the REST web service is working on your database query, can it return a string that says "Query is 10% complete, please wait" or something like that? Can the REST web service call another web service that somehow communicates back to the client this information?
I doubt this is possible, otherwise I would have seen it, but I ask anyway.
Target platform is Visual Studio 2010 Professional with C# and MS Sql Server 2008
You could look at COMET, which according to wikipedia:
...is a programming technique that enables web servers to send data to the client without having any need for the client to request it. It allows creation of event-driven web applications which are hosted in the browser.
There are a number of articles on the web about doing this plus a couple of frameworks on sourceforge and github. However this is not trivial. I know it is possible with REST because a previous employer of mine has several real-time feeds based on RESTfull endpoints using COMET for push.
See here:
http://www.aaronlerch.com/blog/2007/07/08/creating-comet-applications-with-aspnet/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/emergetk/
https://github.com/Oyatel/CometD.NET