West Wind SOAP Manager
Interested in calling remote clients using the Simple Object
Access Protocol (SOAP) in a more reliable way with more options for VFP
native types than provided by the MS
SOAP Toolkit? Then this toolkit is for you.
The West Wind wwSOAP implementation provides a full SOAP
implementation with Visual FoxPro code to provide SOAP packaging,
unpackaging and HTTP services for calling remote services to a SOAP based
Web Service. This product is distributed as fully functional freeware.
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This toolkit provides:
Full SOAP support
wwSOAP supports a full featured implementation of the SOAP spec
that's relevant for Visual FoxPro. The SOAP classes are implemented
completely using Visual FoxPro code, without external dependencies other
than the MSXML parser.
WSDL support
Version 2.0 adds full support for WSDL with a custom WSDL parser that
allows you simply point at a Web Service and run methods on it. The
WSDL parser object also provides runtime type information on the Web
Service which can be used for code generation or live method display
via Intellisense. The WSDL parser can be used independently of SOAP
requests to provide runtime type information to your application.
Easy to use SOAP client
Making a SOAP request is as simple as setting a URL to call, setting
parameters to be sent to the server and calling the method. wwSOAP
handles packaging of the SOAP request, making the HTTP remote method
call and unpackaging the result, including the proper data types (if
provided by the server either via explicit data types or via an
external SDL file)
Complex Type Support
wwSOAP supports a complete arsenal of simple datatypes as well as
support for many complex types including hierarchical objects returned
from the server. In addition, wwSOAP allows selection of how you want to
return results including converted type, string or XMLDOM node for
custom parsing. In conjunction with wwXML it's possible to parse even
very complex types without manually using an XML parser. Examples in the
help file demonstrate parsing of object arrays and .Net Datasets easily.
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SOAP Helper Class
A powerful SOAPHelper class is provided that can generate skeleton Web
Services (requires Web Connection or MSSOAP toolkit server side
components), generate WSDL files from a Web Service (COM or wwSOAP
based) as well as the ability to generate proxy classes from Web
Services. Proxy classes dynamically generate VFP client code to call
remote Web Services using single method calls and provides wrappered
error handling support to SOAP requests.
Distribution
wwSOAP is provided as limited freeware and you can freely distribute
this code in your compiled applications. Limited because the
support libraries like wwHTTP must be used in conjunction with wwSOAP and cannot be
used separately. wwSOAP and the various utility classes are also part of these West Wind commercial
packages which include fully documented and supported versions of all
the classes in the wwSOAP distribution:
West
Wind Web Connection
West Wind Client
Tools
West Wind Web Connection Server
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