[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion and web services best practices

2008-12-11 Thread Kai Koenig
Hi guys, Rae's link basically just describes security on the HTTP level and using some of the role-based security and CFLOGIN in CF. That's fine, but quite often unfortunately your communication partners expect you to support particular technologies and standards in the WS world. When it

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion and web services best practices

2008-12-11 Thread Zac Spitzer
I like REST, it's basically what we have always been doing prior to SOAP except u return structured data rather than HTML it's lightweight and efficient.. where as SOAP is rather heavy! as for the whole SEO type url parameters with REST, I'm not really so fussed whether its

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion and web services best practices

2008-12-11 Thread Barry Beattie
REST is not just the flavor of the month in web 2.0 companies it's actually a very good way of doing things. except if that's not an option, and all you're left with is a bunch of webservices, especially if they're .NET webservices requiring security credentials and tokens, rah, rah. To get

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion and web services best practices

2008-12-11 Thread Kai Koenig
Barry, REST is not just the flavor of the month in web 2.0 companies it's actually a very good way of doing things. except if that's not an option, and all you're left with is a bunch of webservices, especially if they're .NET webservices requiring security credentials and tokens, rah,

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion and web services best practices

2008-12-11 Thread MrBuzzy
Kai, you sort of say that CF doesn't support WS-* but could that might be writing it off too early. In the Java world, is it axis (only) that provides those features? I think it takes more than that right? Should we expect so much from CF? On the publishing side there's flexability to handcraft

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion and web services best practices

2008-12-11 Thread Kai Koenig
Kai, you sort of say that CF doesn't support WS-* but could that might be writing it off too early. In the Java world, is it axis (only) that provides those features? I think it takes more than that right? Should we expect so much from CF? It's not only Axis, but Axis is a common way of

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion and web services best practices

2008-12-11 Thread Chris Velevitch
2008/12/11 Michal michal_kangu...@wp.eu: I need to gather information about CF and web services. Could anybody point me to some resources about best practices when implementing web services in CF? Any lessons learned, gotchas from your own experience are even better. It's not quite clear to

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion and web services best practices

2008-12-11 Thread MrBuzzy
Hey I didn't really say it was M$'s fault either ;) You're spot on about leveraging other libraries, using cfobject etc. But in a way, that's just what Java and .net solutions are doing too. If you want all the extra WS features you're not going to achieve it easily in any language (guess)...

[cfaussie] Re: ColdFusion and web services best practices

2008-12-10 Thread Rae Buerckner
http://www.webreference.com/programming/coldfusion/2/4.html 2008/12/11 Michal [EMAIL PROTECTED] I need to gather information about CF and web services. Could anybody point me to some resources about best practices when implementing web services in CF? Any lessons learned, gotchas from your