Thanks Charlie. Yes, my situation has changed as of late and I no longer develop and maintain internal applications and now have more of a focus on development that will require more use of web services. I appreciate the links to get me up to speed.
As far as the UPS API, Max got me going in the right direction and my deadline was met (whew!!) Thanks, Jeff On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Charlie Arehart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I'll add to Robert's comments to say that, even if the articles and > resources are old, at least the concepts should still apply generally. For > people who may be connecting to UPS as their first example of a web > service-based integration, there's more of a challenge just getting up to > speed with doing that in general. I'll point out that I've done articles and > presentations on the subject and it may help you (or others), as much for > the tools and techniques which apply to all web services: > > > > Creating and Consuming Web Services in CFML: > http://carehart.org/presentations/#websvc > > > > CFML Web Services Tips and Tricks: > http://carehart.org/presentations/#websvctips > > > > Exploring Amazon Web Services with CFML: Exploring Amazon Web Services with > CFML > > > > But I appreciate that you may know all that (but the tools can really > help), and are more just looking for specific (and more modern) UPS API > integration examples. Sorry I can't help there. > > > > /charlie > > > > *From:* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *On Behalf Of *Robert > Lash > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 29, 2008 4:10 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [ACFUG Discuss] UPS Tools > > > > I haven't touch this area in several years and don't know of any updated > pre-built cf to handle this, but I can tell you that you are correct in that > a lot of these solutions are out of date. > > I found this out the hard way in looking for this type of solution for a > FedEx shipping solution and ended up rolling my own FedEx solution using > their API. Even after looking at some of the logic in these pre-built > solutions it was apparent that they weren't very accurate and most were > buggy. > > The API's are the way to go in my opinion as you don't have to worry about > the fuel calculations and other math that the API just handles for you. > > Most of these require a developer key which you can get from there > developer site(s). > > Hopefully someone else on the list has something for you since you are > stating that time is critical. > There are numerous ecommerce solutions with built in shipping features, so > maybe you could get with one of their developers for insight. > > RL > > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Jeff Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm developing my first e-commerce solution and the deadline is rapidly > approaching. At this point, the main thing I have left is integrating UPS > and/or USPS shipping calculator into the app. I've searched around online > and everything looks to be fairly old that's out there. > > Anyone have any good sample/example code for the UPS and/or USPS API > interaction? > > I figured that this would be fairly easy to find googling it. > > Thanks, > Jeff > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ > http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform > > For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists > Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ > List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
