Reader and Web Services

Hi, I'm developing forms in Designer 7 and wish to use ASP.NET 2.0 + Web Services to both prepopulate fields & to receive user entered data as XML upon submit. My web users will only have access to Adobe Reader... so my questions are: can Designer 7 forms, opened in Reader, interact with web services WITHOUT LC Reader Extensions? Second, has anyone come across good examples of doing this without resorting to an Enterprise ASN developer license? Thanks in advanced! Brian

Hi,
As per your first question:
No you cannot have Reader ti interact with a Web Service, unless the form is Reader Extended through LCRE.
But, you might be able to leverage a HTTP connection through GET and POST methods, instead. This could work. Read page 2 from this document:
"Combining LiveCycle 6.x server products with LiveCycle Designer 7.0 and Acrobat 7.0 or Reader 7.0"
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/en/tips/lc_combine_server_tip.pdf
Another handy tool would be this:
"XML/PDF Access API for Java"
http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/livecycle/topic_xpaaj.html
HTH,
Evangelos

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Book: Oracle Database Programming using Java and Web services

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The configuration is proving very challenging but will hopefully reap rewards.
(Thought I would give you some background to my experience).
Anyway my question to you is having looked at Jdeveloper it appears to do almost anything except consume services into the database, also with Java now being at version 1.5 outside the database for 10gR2 and supporting 1.4 inside, do you see some alignment of these in future database releases?
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Kind Regards
David O'Donnell

XML and Web Service Data Source Missing in Crystal Reports for VS

I would like to use a Web Service as the data source for a Crystal Report that will be running outside of my Visual Studio application. So setting the data source to the web service in code is not possible. My understanding is Crystal Reports has a connection (in the Database Expert under New Connection) named XML and Web Service. Here you can select web service and enter the WSDL URL for the web service. However it does not appear in the list for Crystal Reports for Visual Studio. Does this connection type come with the Visual Studio version of Crystal Reports and if not is their a way to obtain it?
Thank you for your assistance.

None of the bundled versions of CR have the driver. Reason is that the driver responsible for these connections requires the Java framework and I suspect MS would not be too pleased if we installed the Java framework. The stand alone versions, since they are not part of any bundle can and do install the Java framework and the driver. Note that even the latest release of CR - CRVS2010 does not have the driver as it essentially becomes a bundle or a VS2010 plug-in.
So, the short of it is; you have to obtain a stand-alone version of CR. I'd recommend CR 2008 (12.x) as CRXI R2 will run out of support in June of this year.
- Ludek

Message Monitoring and Web services Sequences .. SOAMANAGER

When can I use Mesage Monitoring and Sequence Monitoring .
We are making a proof a concept and we are the following.
1. A program which executes a proxy and with this proxy we are consuming a web services.
2. The proxy and web services were implemented in the same Abap Machine .
3. We execute the test and everything works very well and we consume the webservice and the program displays the expected result.
Now want to know How can we use the Message Monitoring and the Sequence Monitoring . Is this posible ? Do we have to make any previous configuration?
We don´t have any XI installation and for that we wonder if we can monitorize the webservices sequences ?
Any idea about if we can realize such king of actions ..
Many Thanks

Hi
I assumes u have dual stack.
You can do the sequence monitoring with or without PI. But without PI you would achieve that thing on the local machine.
You have to do those things at Java End using SAP NWA.
Please see this link
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwce10/helpdata/en/46/b00c2a99930764e10000000a1553f6/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwce10/helpdata/en/46/9cb2b57ded371ae10000000a11466f/content.htm

SSL certificates and Web Services Usage inside Oracle Database Questions!

We have implemented a specific business logic using PL/SQL for our client, so we open a file and process each line of this, doing something in the Database and also call a Web Services (Service1) using UTL_HTTP package. Service1 runs in a Windows 2008 Server in the DMZ as Database server.
Service1 is already working, and we can call the service from PL/SQL without troubles.
However, according with security client's policies they requires all Web services be consumed via https including Service1, so we must to follow the procedure established for Oracle in order to enable the calling of service1 via https from the Database.
Our client's DBA and IT Team are concerned about two subjects before to continue to follow the certificate installation:
     - SSL Certificates:
1- Can installed certificates in the Database put in risk the stability of the database?
          2- Can installed certificates in the Database generate performance issues?
          3- Can installed certificates reloading the Databases?
          2- Can installed certificates in the Database generate security issues?
     - Web services:
1- Can web services calling from the Database put in risk the stability of the database?
2- Can web services calling from the Database generate performance issues?
3- Can web services calling from the Database generate security issues in the DMZ?
Could you please give us any clues, about the possible negative impact related with the SSL certificates and Web Services Usage inside Oracle Database, if it’s the case this impact exists?.
Those are the links describing the procedure mentioned above.
1 -http://www.kotti.es/2009/11/oracle-wallet/
DB: Oracle 9i.
Average number of lines in file: 300
Periodicity: Twice at day.

Thiago:
You are correct in that there should be no problem interacting with a Web service that has an HTTPS endpoint as long as you create a wallet and specify it when you make your UTL_HTTP calls, like the PayPal example.
I am not aware of a PL/SQL utility to create a XMLDsig Standard message, but if you find some Java source out there that does it, you may be able to follow a technique I used for a similar use case:
http://jastraub.blogspot.com/2009/07/hmacsha256-in-plsql.html
Regards,
Jason

Enterprise services and Web services

Hi Everyone
I need documents about Invoking enterprise services from Netweaver PI and web services from Netweaver PI, I can find only NetWeaver CE, but not PI. So help, any links?? or pdfs?? or ideal would be some demo example of invoking a web service using PI.
Thank you
Vijay

Hi,
Since you would need to wet your hands by playing with webservice and PI. Please consider the following links.
SOAP scenario
/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/09/03/invoke-webservices-using-sapxi
https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/1334 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/2131 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
https://weblogs.sdn.sap.com/pub/wlg/1442 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]
Regards
joel
Edited by: joel trinidade on Mar 25, 2009 10:41 AM
Edited by: joel trinidade on Mar 25, 2009 10:43 AM

GTC Connector using SPML Format Provider and Web Services Transport Provide

Hello All,
Did any body create a GTC connector which uses SPML Format for Format Provider and Web Services format for Transport Provider?
Is there any doc which talks about the same?
I need to provision to a system over web services and I thought GTC using the above formats should be an easy approach. Am I right?
I was trying to follow:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E14571_01/doc.1111/e14309/devgtc.htm#BABDFDFE
But Iam getting lost in the immerse details.
Thanks in advance.

Hi ,
I tried creating one and am getting the following error while provisioning:
SPML Response failed V2 schema validation
Th eoracle document says :Ensure that the SPML response returned by the target system conforms to the SPML V2 standard specification
Please help me with the same. What is it that needs to be done here.
Thanks
WIP

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