Web Services General Question

Hi All,
Does web services in Java mean to simply provide a SOAP container that wraps around an EJB (or even a web container)?
If this is true, all of the work that's been done with the development of EJBs can be preserved, and other system will make calls to the SOAP container in order to get access to the web services provided.
I'm trying to understand the big picture and slowly get into Web Services in Java.
Thanks

I don�t know if this answers your question, but I think that SOAP indeed can be used to expose existing EJB�s to non-Java-Systems.

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I have created a web service in the NetWeaver portal using a Portal Service. I have marked the service as requiring basic http authentication. However, when I call the web service from the Enterprise Portal Web Services Checker in NWDS it just let's me supply the params of the web service and no authentication. Any ideas?
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Thanks in advance.
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Hi Curtis,
My guess is that since you are logged into the Portal while calling this web service, it will use the current session cookie to authenticate automatically. I'm not sure on the second question, tried a restart?
Regards,
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Securing Web Service--Beginner question

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I am trying to follow the document "Securing WelbLogic Web Service 10g Release 3" and can't get past the initial steps to verify that my service has been deployed with the Wssp1.2-2007-Wss1.1-UsernameToken-Plain-X509-Basic256.xml policy
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Web Service/ JDBC question

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thanks in advance...

This is what we call "Database Web Services" covered in chapter 15 of my book http://db360.blogspot.com/2006/08/oracle-database-programming-using-java_01.html
See also
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b) Calling External Web services from stored procedure (it contains an example of batch scheduling for call-out but you are looking for call-in): http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/java/jsp/samples/wsclient/Readme.html
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Web service simple question

I am using a Web Service to publish some data, and this question is, I'm sure, stemming from my limited knowledge and use of web servers.
I am able to set up an "add" method, pass 2 numbers to the web server, and have the web server return a value. Simple. But, I am not sure what to do when I want to get the current value of something that is being updated in a loop.
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I have thought about using session variables, but this requires continually writing to the session variable in my code, which probably isn't a big deal, but it would be nice if it only queried the current iteration when the user asked for it (much like 2 numbers are only added when the user asks for it in the NI example). I'm looking for a way to just return the current value, only when the user asks for it.
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You'll probably want to go through more LabVIEW basics before trying this, or consider another means of communication between your VIs such as shared variables.
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Web service basic question

Well I am new to web services. I have a small doubt. We are trying to develop a tool which uses web service that standards the communication between my tool and different surveillance
systems.
What my tools should do is, it needs to get data from different surveillance
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My first question is
1) Should I implement a web service or a client. I guess the answer should be, implement a client. if so, should I make my WSDL public and tell them and if you want to provide me the data you have implement a web service definition corresponding to my client. I am a bit confused here. So pleeeeeeeease help. I need to submit my design to my professor by the end of the week.

If your tool needs to be called from the surveillance systems, you could publish a web service and give the wsdl to the various surveilance systems. Then when they need to contact you they can invoke your web service.

Java web services basic question

Hi all,
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Here's where my lack of knowledge hurts. From my point of view, I would need 15 different java classes (i.e. GPS_Service0, GPS_Service1, etc) and 15 different .aar files. Each .aar file would go into the application server, and I would access each service at a different web address.
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Does anyone have any suggestions for me, or does anyone have an example of what I'm trying to do?
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Eric

I forgot to answer your question.
You have to consume the webservice :
http://gerardnico.com/wiki/ide/eclipse/eclipse_how_to_consume_a_webservice_with_wtp
It will create for you the package
com.siebel.analytics.web.soap.v5
See my example. I think it's enough complete.
Success
Nico

Java Web Services Newbie Questions

I have some questions concerning developing Web Services in java. I understand the basic technology and concepts, but am not familiar with the available Java pieces to accomplish what I need to.
1. What application do I need to service a Web Service? I would prefer to run apache (running on an AS/400). Can apache do this? What in addition to apache (plug-in?) do I need to service the Web Service?
2. What application (plug-in?) do I need to provide the UDDI lookup for my Web Services? Again, I would prefer to do this in apache. Do I need a plug-in, etc.
3. Is there an IDE or package that will make creating the Web Service easier. I am currently using Eclipse for some other java work, so it would be nice if this IDE would work well for this. I am hoping for some plug-in that will make it easy for me to provide a method prototype, and the WSDL and perhaps client proxy classes get generated from this?
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6. Anything else (tools, API's, plug-ins) I need to know how to make this happen quickly. I need to implement a couple web services in just a few weeks.
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1. There are 3 ways i can think of:
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2. You need to register with a public registry, such as those by IBM, Microsoft, etc.
3. Partly answered in 1... I prefer working with 1.4, because that is a new standard coming up, so no serious changes will be needed later.
WSDL and stubs/ties are generated for you by tools like wscompile, but you do have to code the client itself :)
4. wscompile, etc. can be invoked by tools like ant based on your build file, or by IDE.
5. Automatically done...
6. I think i covered the tools above. For the rest, I'd recommend going through J2EE 1.4 Tutorial, or cases like those provided by some IDEs.
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Adobe Interactive Form / Web Service - Connection question

Hi
We have CRM 2007 and want to use Adobe Interactive forms for our sales managers to upload customer information when they're out in the field. Before they leave all information about the customer will be downloaded to an Adobe Interactive Form. The client sees the customer and then enters the information required to e.g. create a sales order. He has an Internet connection but is not neccessarily logged into CRM 2007. He is a registered user in CRM 2007.
My question is: if we create the web services to send and receive data to the CRM 2007 system, does the sales manager have to be online and signed into the CRM system to upload the Adobe Interactive Forms back to the server, or does the web service handle this?
Kind regards
Declan

Hello Declan,
You can send the information captured in an SAP Interactive Form by Adobe to your CRM system in two ways based on the way in which your form is designed -
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Hope this info helps!
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Web services deployment question

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Tim
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How do you configure Workshop 8.1 to hide the Web Services test page fordeployment.
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A web service design question

Hello,
I�d like to ask for your help in the following design issue:
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I have to write the code as generic as possible. I know that some design pattern should be used for this. (some from GoF , and I know there exists design patterns specially created for web services as well).
Could you enumerate me which patterns (and for what part of the program) would be the best choice to solve this problem? I have read through some books about patterns, but don�t have the knowledge to pick up the right one for a concrete problem like this..
Thank you in advance,
nagybaly

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At this time there's no known solution for this. This was submitted to the development team and a fix is expected in Service Pack 2. At this time we have not announced a release date for SP2.
Edited by: David Hilton on Jun 18, 2009 3:02 PM
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Simple web service authentication question

I'm using the application server included with Sun ONE Identity Server 6.1 (and Apache Axis) to deploy a very simple sample web service. Accessing it from a web browser works fine. (After entering the url to my service, I'm redirected to the authentication page. After authenticating, my service is executed as expected.)
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