Web Services in Jade

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by Brian Mills >> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 1:02:35 GMT

Is anyone out there using web services in Jade?

I'm just interested in weather anybody else has started to use them yet.

Brian.

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by Simon B >> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 2:23:42 GMT

Yup, the project I work on (for EWS rail in England) is making use of a Web Service Consumer in production to query one of the client's .NET systems, and it is working fine. We are about to get two of their JADE systems talking to each other using Web Service Consumers / Providers in a Package. Fun stuff !

Cheers, Simon B.

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by allistar >> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 7:24:49 GMT

Hi Brian,
One of my clients has an internal system with a web services consumer that interfaces to a web srevices consumer at Jade to allow us to generate JADE registration keys on the fly. Works seamlessly and works well.

Regards,
Allistar.
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by BeeJay >> Tue, 16 Nov 2004 5:13:19 GMT

Allistar,

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't you be connecting to a Web Services Provider at Jade rather than consumer->consumer?

Cheers,
BeeJay.

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by allistar >> Tue, 16 Nov 2004 5:17:29 GMT

Indeed, you are right. Case of not re-reading my post before hitting "send".

Thanks,
Allistar.
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by Torrie >> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 8:35:39 GMT

Brian

We are using Web services to connect a client web page (written in ASP ..NET) to interface with a Jade back end. The Web services are on a gateway Jade system which then sends standard TCP/IP messages to the relevant back end system which responds to the gateway and then to the web page. Our back end systems are still in Jade 5.2

Torrie

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by Brian Mills >> Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:33:28 GMT

Thats actually what I'm trying to do if I've caught your meaning. I'm using web services in Jade to allow .Net to use Jade as a database on a web based interface. I'm assuming though you have built your own implementation of it if you are still in Jade 5.2 rather than using the inbuilt methods in Jade 6.

Brian.

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by Stephen >> Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:19:19 GMT

Just thought I would post something I have found regarding WebServices as it may be of use to someone:

I just had a situation where I created the wsdl file from within Jade but then could not import again into another Jade application, as it gives errors saying its an invalid wsdl file.

It turned out to be if you have any of the following charcaters & < > within the text that you add to a class or method, then while the wsdl file is created OK, it can't be imported. If you really must have them in the text, (in my case the character & was part of a URL I wanted included) you need to replace it with its HTML character entity then everything works as it should. Eg "&" becomes "&"

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by brian.mills >> Wed, 24 Nov 2004 4:57:09 GMT

I found the same thing. Really I think jade should put the escaping sequence before and after text fields if they are extracting it as any value could be in the text field of methods and properties. an & may be required in the description of what ever it is. I believe the escaping character sequence <![CDATA[ stuff here ]]> would mean that anything in between would not be a problem.

I dont think the Web services is quite there yet. I'm tempted to take over it myself as I've got a problem that they wont fix till 6.0.21 release in January, and they wont give me a hot fix for. My problem is related to the output of booleans, whenever the boolean is false, it returns null instead of false. Which my other end of the web service doesnt recognise as a valid boolean.

Brian.

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by Anonymous >> Tue, 14 Dec 2004 5:04:51 GMT

Would I be correct in thinking you are using Jade's inbuilt Web services framework then? I'm just having some trouble with them And wanted to contact and talk to someone else who was using the inbuilt framework.