MS Access and SOAP, XMLRPC etc - web-services

I have been searching high and low on Google and finding very little information on using Web services with MS Access 2007. I'm sure this is possible somehow but I can't find any relevant information.
Any ideas?

Have a look a Danny Delasandrini's article on consuming web services from Access. That should get you started, at least, (though it predates A2007 and A2010).

Yeah, what has worked for me in the past is to build a com-callable .NET component, install it on the user's machine, and reference the COM-interface from the access database using VBA.

I was developing and integration between MS Access 2010 and WordPress 4.0 using XMLRPC. I documented the process and some code in 8 articles:
1) Post publish
2) File upload
3) Featured image
4) Custom Type
5) Custom Fields
6) The complete proccess
7) Security
8) Post delete
I hope it will be helpful for somebody. It was very difficult to me to find documentation.
But it works like a charm!

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Is there MSHTML Editing equivalent in MS Edge?

I want to use MS Edge as an html editor. Is that possible?
Can I use c++ to access undo stack?
If so, please point me to any kind of documentation.
Thanks
I don't have any sources for this, but I'm pretty certain that Microsoft didn't carry this functionality over into Edge - especially considering that you can't embed Edge in a C++ or .NET desktop application the same way you can with IE.
I don't see any reason you couldn't just keep using MSHTML, though.
When referring to the MS Web Browser Control documentation there is, at the top of the page:
We're no longer updating this content regularly. Check the Microsoft Product Lifecycle for information about how this product, service, technology, or API is supported.
And next to it, a button: "Recommended Version."
Click the button, and it's the MS Edge dev portal. From there, we see, amongst others. a link to Mozilla Developer Network Web Docs, and another to MS's own Progressive Web Apps on Windows. Not so MSHTML edity anymore, but if you want it implemented, then perhaps uservoice?

How to start using Doctrine 2 in an Apigility application with zf-apigility-doctrine?

I want to integrate the Doctrine 2 to an Apigility driven Zend Framework 2 application.
So I installed zfcampus/zf-apigility-doctrine
$ composer require zfcampus/zf-apigility-doctrine "~0.3"
and activated the modules Phpro\DoctrineHydrationModule, ZF\Apigility\Doctrine\Server, and ZF\Apigility\Doctrine\Admin in the application config files (/config/application.config.php and /config/development.config.php).
What should be done next to start using Doctrine in the application as general and particularly in the Apigility Admin area?
I experimented with this Apigility extension in the fall but it was far from complete at that point. The server code was usable but there wasn't any UI integration to speak of. You can still manipulate endpoints by dissecting how zf-apigility-doctrine's controllers work and the information provided in the README. The rest is mostly trial and error. At the time I used the Postman plugin for Chrome to send requests to the endpoints mentioned in the README, trying different inputs until I found something that worked. It looks like they've made good progress on this portion of the integration since I last tried but I haven't revisited since to try again.
It seems there's no official integration with the Apigility admin UI yet. There is a repository for it (https://github.com/zfcampus/zf-apigility-admin-ui) but a quick browse of the open tickets shows it's not working yet. Someone has forked it and worked on it, but I haven't looked into it myself so I can't comment on it's readiness.
My suggestion is that if you want to learn how to integrate zf-apigility-doctrine into your Apigility the best way to do that right now is to take a look at Roll'n API (source here)

PowerShell Web Services (Management oData IIS Extensions)?

There are references to this "Loch Ness" feature across Microsoft's announcements for both PoSh3 & 4; however, I am unable to locate useful, current documentation on PSWS. I even went as far as to spin up a VM and installed related roles, features, and downloadable binaries from Microsoft's referenced sites. The only content, binaries, and help that I could find is a year old and is very poorly documented. Microsoft's own MSDN pages about Management oData IIS Extensions is still incomplete. (and doesn't work on W2k12 or W2k12R2) While another section of MSDN covers the oData classes, it does not cover how to utilize the PSWS / IIS extensions with the required schema designer...etc.
All that so you know that I've done the research but am unable to find sufficient & current documentation on how to employ PSWS / Management oData IIS extensions. Does anyone know who to contact within Microsoft to get this information? Or has anyone recently used the oData / PSWS Schema Designer to create a PoSh odata service?
TIA.
-Eric
Have a look in the url below if you haven't already. there's a doc inside the zip file.
http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/mgmtODataWebServ/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=5728
Here's a newer link to the MSDN doc:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh880865(v=vs.85).aspx

Is there a way to extract data from Nagios as if it was a web service?

My situation: I'm working on a web monitoring dashboard that assembles informations from different applications and sources and generate graphs, info graphics and reports.
The applications I'm trying to integrate are CACTI, Nagios, and other local private monitoring tools. I had no problem to integrate these applications, except for Nagios (I don't have much experience with it).
What I want to know is if there is a way to use Nagios as a Web Service, or something similar, so I can expose some of the informations and use it to generate my own reports on my dashboard application.
Is it possible to do that without any epic effort?
thanks for reading.
Nagios 4.x starting with version 4.4 now includes CGIs for JSON output. Installing the newest version of Nagios might be the easiest way to go.
See the announcement here.
Review the slides from Nagios World Conference 2013 here.
The Check_MK Multisite GUI (Web base GUI using MK Livestatus) offers a web service mode, where you can send queries/commands as URL parameters and get the response as JSON in the body.
The trick is: Create a view in the GUI, which fits your needs. Then extract the URL of that view and add the parameter output_format=json. Now you should have the output in a parsable format.
For example, this URL should give you a JSON list of all services:
check_mk/view.py?view_name=allservices&output_format=json
You can try:
1) MK Livestatus http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_livestatus.html
it's not web service but it can give current data without any complicated action. All you need redirect this data.
2)status-json plugin http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Addons/APIs/JSON/status-2Djson/details which return data in JSON format.
3)NagiosWS plugin but I wasn't able to get to work it yet. I think it can be done for Nagios 2.x
4)GroundWork Foundation plugin. I think I will try use it now.
I was able to get to work 1 and 2 solution now.
Otherwise you can use Icinga which can give you some JSON or XML output. Icinga is fork of Nagios and can be installed with saving all your nagios data and plugins. At least it written on Icinga's site =) They have some other solution like PHP lib.
Sorry, I cannot post only 2 link while I'm newbie on this site.
Best regards.
Worked for me - MK Livestatus http://mathias-kettner.de/checkmk_livestatus.html it's not web service but it can give current data without any complicated action. All you need redirect this data.

Glassfish, railo and coldbox - messed up links?

I am new to ColdFusion and ColdBox (and programming). I tried to setup ColdBox but some of the links in the sample applications are broken.
My configuration is a GlassFish v3 installation with the current Railo OSS. I access my site through Apache 2.2.14.
So instead of http://127.0.0.1:8080/railo/ I access my environment trough http://railo/.
In Railo I have a webroot mapping / to C:/webapps/myproject/.
I have copied the current ColdBox 3M4 to C:/webapps/myproject/coldbox. I can access the dashboard through http://railo/coldbox/dashboard/index.cfm and have access to all options.
My problems start the moment I try to open the sample gallery:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented
it from fulfilling this request.
exception
java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\webapps\viss-dev\coldbox\samples
(Zugriff verweigert)
note The full stack traces of the exception and its root causes are
available in the GlassFish v3 logs.
GlassFish v3
OK, no problem, just enter the link directly: http://railo/coldbox/samples/index.cfm.
The site looks plain, who cares - BUT all local links look like this: http://127.0.0.1:8080/coldbox/samples/applications/helloworld/index.cfm (railo is replaced with 127.0.0.1:8080).
Looks like trouble. To make my confusion perfect: when I try to access the login app: http://railo/coldbox/samples/applications/sampleloginapp/index.cfm and hit the submit button, I am redirected to this address: http://railo/railo/coldbox/samples/applications/sampleloginapp/index.cfm.
I believe that this is not really ColdBox-related, but it manifests itself when I try to use ColdBox, so here I am.
P.S.: amazon.de takes too long to ship the ColdBox book :(
Here's a suggestion, The good people at Vivotech have developed a couple of different installers for both Windows/IIS7 and various flavours of Linux for both Railo and Open BlueDragon. The setup installs Tomcat, Railo/Open Blue Dragon and the necessary connectors to the web server. Here's the link: http://www.viviotech.net/company/installers.cfm
I think you'll find using the installers to be a lot easier than working through it yourself. If you want to go that route, Adobe and various bloggers have instructions on how to do it. Matt Woodward has a very good blog posting on it: see MattWoodward.com, He also has a presentation on this, you can see it here.
hth,
larry
Since you are new to ColdFusion (and programming in general), I would recommend developing against Adobe ColdFusion. The Developer Edition of ColdFusion is free and available from Adobe.com. You won't need to mess around or configure GlassFish since Adobe ColdFusion comes with a baked-in pre-configured Tomcat, providing both servlet engine and web server.
Just install the 'Stand-alone' version of ColdFusion Developer Edition, copy the ColdBox files into the webroot and in less than 15 minutes you be up and running.
You should also check out ColdFusion Builder which is currently available in beta from http://labs.adobe.com. It has full language support and integrated help content for learning the ins-outs of the language.
As far as the ColdBox book goes, it's available as an eBook if you really can't wait. ;-)
DISCLAIMER: I spend about 50% of my waking life devoted to making ColdFusion better as the CF Product Manager at Adobe. :-)
i have given up on glassfish and i am now struggling with tomcat :D