Bill, Good question. The entire purpose (albeit realized yet or not) of web services is to provide "complete" interoperability of discrete functionality between development platforms. This is accomplished by translating all data to and from a web service into a specific encoding type (for simple or complex datatypes) that is universal. The recipient of that data will decode it into its native format to use/understand as necessary.
Now, I've run into a few problems as well with some of the web services on xMethods.com as well from opposing technologies. I have not yet looked through the WSDL to figure out what is different from the ones working and the ones that are not, nor have I had a chance to try implementing those same web services in other technologies, such as NET. There are some known incompatibilities between platforms with web services (of which there are not supposed to be) between .NET and CFMX, specifically with datasets (query recordsets). The only workaround at this point is to convert the recordset into a different format to be returned. I am hoping for a service pack to fix this soon. --Paul Paul W. Wille [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------- Certified Advanced ColdFusion 5 Developer --------------------------------------------------- ISITE Design, Inc. -- Senior Programmer www.isitedesign.com 615 SW Broadway, Suite 200 Portland, OR 97205 503.221.9860 x110 503.221.9865 -----Original Message----- From: Bill Wheatley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, July 29, 2002 7:02 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: DWMX & Webservice & Web services types I have a question that I'm curious about. I've been playing around with DWMX to put webservices into a page since its pretty snazzy. I goto www.xmethods.com and I notice they have like 4 or 5 different type of services. Cold, .net, soap, glue etc etc I cant always the methods onto the page via DWMX. Is this because CFMX doesn't support .net services yet? or is this a bug in DWMX or what? Enlighten me those who have not played with webservices yet. PS this is a prime topical to write and FAQ about for the HOF lists if nobody else does I'll write about it once I figure it all our myself :) Danks Bill Wheatley Senior Database Developer Macromedia Certified Advanced Coldfusion Developer EDIETS.COM 954.360.9022 X159 ICQ 417645 ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
