Monthly Archives: September 2008

PHP for Enterprise Applications

Posted on September 18, 2008 by dimuthu

As the implementation language for a vast space of the applications through out the web, PHP still finding a proper place in the enterprise space. Can PHP go beyond the conventional web based database back-ended applications?. Can I use public … Continue reading →

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Do REST in PHP – PHP RESTful Data Services

Posted on September 18, 2008 by dimuthu

In RESTful paradigm we give a piece of data ( or in other word ‘Resource’) a unique URL. And in order to manipulate data we use HTTP verbs POST/PUT (create, update), GET (read), DELETE (delete). For an example take the … Continue reading →

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PHP Data Services With WS-Security

Posted on September 16, 2008 by dimuthu

Earlier I wrote a blog about how to make your wordpress blog a web service using the WSF/PHP Data Services library. I will expand that post to demonstrate the use of WS-Security features with WSF/PHP. This time it is a … Continue reading →

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Code First Approach of Developing Services with WSF/PHP 2.0

Posted on September 15, 2008 by dimuthu

In the code first approach, WSF/PHP will generate you the WSDL from your annotated PHP code. If you are familiar with older versions of WSF/PHP you should be already familiar with the syntax used in the annotations which are more … Continue reading →

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Use Axis2/C WSDL2C With Unwrapped Mode for Simpler Code

Posted on September 15, 2008 by dimuthu

WSDL2Java and WSDL2C tools shipped with the Axis2/Java project are used to generate Stubs(client side) and Skeletons(Server Side) respectively for Axis2/Java and Axis2/C codes. This make the development of web services and consumers more quicker and easier. The tools come … Continue reading →

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How to Hack Axis2 Codegen templates from an Axis2 Binary

Posted on September 13, 2008 by dimuthu

I have been working for Axis2/C codegen tool for sometime now and I found lot of users who want to edit the codegen templates for a more optimized code specific to their use cases. This is mainly because codegen tool … Continue reading →

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WSO2 WSF/PHP 2.0.0 Just Released!

Posted on September 12, 2008 by dimuthu

We have been waiting for a while to do the WSF/PHP 2.0.0 release with a bundle of new features. We took time to test all the features and to make sure they are working smoothly. And it is heavily tested … Continue reading →

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Developing WSF/PHP Webservices With Contract First Approach – 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 8, 2008 by dimuthu

WSF/PHP allows you to develop web services with both Contract First (Starting from WSDL) and Code First Approaches. From these two, Contract First approach is the most famous and most recomended way of developing a Webservice. There you need to … Continue reading →

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PHP DataServices 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 6, 2008 by dimuthu

We use the term DataServices for exposing a Database as a WebService. PHP DataServices library make this task easy by providing a very simple API to the developers. The API is designed to let the service developer to provide the … Continue reading →

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WSF/PHP WSDL Generation 2 Minutes Introduction

Posted on September 5, 2008 by dimuthu

Whenever you deploy a service script in WSF/PHP you can access its WSDL by adding “?wsdl” or “?wsdl2” (for WSDL version 2.0) to the service endpoint. Anyway you may have noticed that for some services it will just list the … Continue reading →

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