OK, to re-phrase, a good web service would be have a simple string return (complex object object as string) to make it totally interop.
"This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Gateway House, 28 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DN, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. It contains information which is confidential and may also be privileged. It is for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient(s) please note that any form of distribution, copying or use of this communication or the information in it is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this communication in error please return it to the sender or call our switchboard on +44 (0) 20 89107910. The opinions expressed within this communication are not necessarily those expressed by Reed Exhibitions." Visit our website at http://www.reedexpo.com -----Original Message----- From: Dean Lawrence To: CF-Talk Sent: Sun Mar 25 19:22:50 2007 Subject: Re: Just a question/discussion point RE: Web services.. On 3/24/07, Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Basically, if you want your webservice to be consumed over the web by other > technologies then your return needs to be a string (but that string can be > anything - XML Encoded String (not a ColdFusion XML object) Array etc). > That's not true. I have a web service that I wrote that returns a structure that contains both simple strings (success status, etc.) and a CF query object. I am able to consume this and transverse the results using PHP 4 without any problem (and I don't know PHP very well). Dean -- __________________________________________ Dean Lawrence, CIO/Partner Internet Data Technology 888.GET.IDT1 ext. 701 * fax: 888.438.4381 http://www.idatatech.com/ Corporate Internet Development and Marketing Specialists ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales & marketing dashboard RIAâs for your business. Upgrade now http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2?sdid=RVJT Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:273667 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
