Cold fusion web service

[kmandal]

Hi

I am new in the coldfusion and have couple of questions about Cold fusion web
services

A > In order to start a database driven cold fusion web application do I have
to create a cold fusion web service first ?

B > What is the difference between Java web service and cold fusion web
service ?

C > I will be using Java to build some part of the application . So do I have
to create both Java and Cold fusion web service ? Is both web service work
together at same time ? or one web service will be OK

D > I am not using coldfusion built in web server but our external web server
.. So where Should I create the Web service ?

Any help in this regard is very much appriciated

Thanks

[kmandal]

Hi

I am new in the coldfusion and have couple of questions about Cold fusion web
services

A > In order to start a database driven cold fusion web application do I have
to create a cold fusion web service first ?

B > What is the difference between Java web service and cold fusion web
service ?

C > I will be using Java to build some part of the application . So do I have
to create both Java and Cold fusion web service ? Is both web service work
together at same time ? or one web service will be OK

D > I am not using coldfusion built in web server but our external web server
.. So where Should I create the Web service ?

Any help in this regard is very much appriciated

Thanks

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

kmandal wrote:

> Hi
>
> I am new in the coldfusion and have couple of questions about Cold fusion web
> services
>
> A > In order to start a database driven cold fusion web application do I have
> to create a cold fusion web service first ?

Nope, absolutely not--you can build entire web applications in CF that
don't have anything to with web services. CF makes it very easy to
create web services of course, but you don't have to use them unless you
need to.

> B > What is the difference between Java web service and cold fusion web
> service ?

Not sure I understand the question--the direct answer is that one's
created in CF and one's created in Java. To the consumer of the web
service it doesn't matter what they're written in. And to reiterate the
point above, you may not even need a web service for what you're doing.

> C > I will be using Java to build some part of the application . So do I have
> to create both Java and Cold fusion web service ? Is both web service work
> together at same time ? or one web service will be OK

If they do the same thing you wouldn't need two web services. One of
the points of web services is that disparate systems can leverage one
another through web services.

> D > I am not using coldfusion built in web server but our external web server
> . So where Should I create the Web service ?

Hmm ... I'm confused about why you're confused. ;-) The fact that
you're not using CF's internal web server just means that all your CF
files need to go somewhere where the web server can find them, and this
includes the CFCs that you expose as web services. I suggest checking
out the DevNet area of Macromedia's web site for some basic primers
about web services in CF--these might shed some light on things.

[url]http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/coldfusion/webservices.html[/url]

Hope that helps,
Matt

--
Matt Woodward
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[kmandal]

Hi Matt

Thanks for your reply . I need to get data from our SQL server database
through my cold fusion pages . The user will use the cold fusion pages as data
access page . So Do I need to make a web service to do that ? Is the web
service helps getting the data from the database ? Or I can just make cold
fusion pages and create data source and connect the cold fusion pages to the
SQL data source to get data on the cold fusion page ?

Thanks

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

kmandal wrote:

> Hi Matt
>
> Thanks for your reply . I need to get data from our SQL server database
> through my cold fusion pages . The user will use the cold fusion pages as data
> access page . So Do I need to make a web service to do that ? Is the web
> service helps getting the data from the database ? Or I can just make cold
> fusion pages and create data source and connect the cold fusion pages to the
> SQL data source to get data on the cold fusion page ?

Yes, you can just use regular CFML pages for these purposes. You don't
need web services at all to interact with a database. You can use them
for this purpose as well of course, but they're not at all necessary.

Matt

--
Matt Woodward
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[wild-west]

popster, did you ever get this to work? Just wondering if you did. If so, please post your solution.

Thanks in advance.

[flexdummy]

i hv an error on this topic too.My error is wsdl fetch failed