Web Service Application
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I am writing a web service application for a windows server and am wondering if there is anything I MUST provide for? Can I just write my application and load it up in the service manager and run it? Also, it is going to recieve commands from a servlet running on a linux box over a LAN. Can a service just open a socket and listen for input? Thanks for your time :) Managing Director of B9 Software www.b9software.com
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I am writing a web service application for a windows server and am wondering if there is anything I MUST provide for? Can I just write my application and load it up in the service manager and run it? Also, it is going to recieve commands from a servlet running on a linux box over a LAN. Can a service just open a socket and listen for input? Thanks for your time :) Managing Director of B9 Software www.b9software.com
Web services are usually exposed by the web server, or by an app server (in the case of Java web services) that expose the service on an HTTP or HTTPS port. No need to open a socket since web requests are passed to the web service via the web/app server. On Windows 2000, XP, 2003 servers, this means IIS and ASP.NET handle the web service requests, unless you're using an alternative web server/app server to handle web services. See:
- Microsoft Web Services Developer Center
- XML Web Services Created with ATL Server
- gSoap: C/C++ Web services
- Java Technology and Web Services
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