Costas, Unfortunately the web service corresponding with this WSDL can not be ported to ColdFusion MX. CFMX web services implementation has some limitations (read: CFMX, not Axis) which prevent this particular service to be ported.
You will run into problems in the ArrayOfaccount and ArrayOfcomputer types. CFMX supports Arrays and will return an array from a web service, but it will always be an array of anything. There is no way in CFMX to tell it what type of content is in the array and therefore the WSDL will never be fully descriptive. Understanding that you will never get a fully descriptive WSDL it is possible to create the service and make it work with non-CFMX consumers by using an array of CFC's. It would be possible to then manually create a WSDL which fully describes the service, but that is more work and complication than most people can handle (virtually all web service toolkits create WSDLs, so people don't get much practice in creating them). I have made two suggestions to MM on how to fix this long term, but they are very long term (native support for CFC collections and accept/return XML to CFC functions and include a mechanism to provide a schema). Short term, I would suggest sticking with either .NET or Java. If you're mostly a CF shop or have CF clientele, then I would suggest the Java route--more portable and better long term for CF people to learn Java over .NET. Good luck! Sam ---------------------------------------- Samuel R. Neff Senior Software Engineer B-Line Express Advanced ColdFusion 5.0 Certified Team Macromedia Volunteer for ColdFusion ---------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 16:05:58 -0700 From: Costas Piliotis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: CFMX Web Services and Objects Message-ID: <22A8D10172BFD41195B700D0B765C3F002D5D161@VCSVANNTEX0> Hi All... I have a web service that I currently connect to in ASP.Net that I'm looking at porting back to cfmx so that I don't need to integrate the two platforms. Can anyone please tell me if it's possible to pass objects around in CFMX when calling web services? It's a nasty complicated web service written in GLUE btw... The wsdl file is located at: https://console.remoteservices.com/site/services/urn:remoteservices.wsdl I have to for example pass the ComputerRequest Object to the RemoteServices.Start Method... Any thoughts on whether I should leave it in .Net because it's such a natural fit or if I should port it to CFMX? Or should I natively write it in Java for CFMX? Thanks in advance for your guys help... ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com 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
