Developing a Web Service

Question

Hi,
I'm fairly new at doing this and although i've read almost every blueprint and doc on it, I'm in need of a little advice.
I've created a 'Web Application' within Sun Studio 7, and I'm creating order entry and order display info in parts of the web application. It is here that I would like to develop a web service to interact with the customer. I've 'added' a 'webservice' to the web application and then linked it to some of my classes. I've created a 'test' client and this is where the problem occurs. I 'execute' the client and it brings me to a page much like the 'CurrencyConverter' demo. However once I enter my data I get a Error 404 message. That is my first problem. The second is once I deploy this, how do I use the client against a real server. My tests are just to localhost:8080.
Thanks.

Answer 1

if external web service is hosted in BizTalk, then most probably we are talking about WCF services, is it correct? In order to start working with them the simplest way is to add Service reference in Visual Studio (see e.g.
How to: Add, Update, or Remove a WCF Data Service Reference). It will generate proxy for your application (regular C# class which will have all complexity related with remote calls
hidden from you, so you will work with it by the same way as it would be any other C# class). Important moment however is that VS will also generate configurations which are necessary for consuming remote service (bindings, endpoints, etc.). You will need
to copy these configurations to web.config of Sharepoint sitem when will move it to event receiver (in case you will choose synchronous events), or configure WCF proxy them programmatically in Sharepoint.
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