> -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Chiverton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, August 18, 2005 10:08 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: Ajax and CFCs > > On Thursday 18 August 2005 10:04, Micha Schopman wrote: > > Microsoft provides a free webservice.htc to accommodate SOAP operations > > with Javascript. > > ..htc aren't real web pages.
Well - they're not web pages at all. ;^) "HTC" is a "Hyper Text Component" - basically an encapsulated behavior. It can't be used on it's own at all. HTCs are used to extend HTML pages and HTA applications. There are still several problems with the HTC however (I evaluated it extensively): +) It doesn't work with CF web services. It just doesn't. There's a hacked version floating around from Bill Hepola that fixes some of the problems... but even then you can only pass simple data (the complex data structures in SOAP differ between CF and .NET and only the .NET ones are supported). +) It only works on IE 5 or above. Nothing else. (This actually would have been fine for me since I'm actually building an HTA... but the other problems scuttled it.) +) MS no longer supports this component. They also no longer support the replacement for this component (the SOAP com library). As of now they SOAP natively in .NET and that's it - no more extensions/libraries. +) Using this extension is tedious. HTC's are DHTML behaviors (actually a great concept unique to IE 5+) so you must link the behavior to the style of an element. This works and all but the forced coupling of what should be a low-level transfer library to the interface seems very odd. There really nothing in the code that couldn't have been done in "regular" JavaScript... unless they just used an HTC to explicitly force the idea of IE 5+. All told I worked for several days trying to get this HTC to work with even simple CF or Java services and got no joy. But if you're doing IE 5+ development against a .NET server it should actually be quite nice to work with. ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:215630 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
