Author Archives: dimuthu

The Use of SOAP Action with WSF/PHP

Posted on November 25, 2008 by dimuthu

In SOAP 1.1, the SOAP action is mentioned as a compulsory HTTP header. In practice it was used to identify the operation for a given request which we identify by the term ‘dispatching operations’. As of SOAP 1.2, the SOAP … Continue reading →

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Sending Binary with Apache Axis2/C ADB

Posted on November 24, 2008 by dimuthu

Axis2/C ADB is a C language binding to the XML schema. ADB object model represents an XML specific to a given schema in a WSDL. You can use the Axis2 codegen tool to generate ADB codes for your WSDL and … Continue reading →

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Data Services – Databases For SOA

Posted on November 23, 2008 by dimuthu

Database plays a big role in any day-today application. It is a major component from accounting, web portal, CMS, SaaS applications, search engines to all enterprise applications. In traditional MVC(Model-View-Controller) applications we talk about the Model component which represent the … Continue reading →

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Organic Chemistry – Reaction Simulator

Posted on November 22, 2008 by dimuthu

Organic Reaction Simulator It is a tool that simulates the organic reactions and automatically generate the IUPAC names for the organic compounds drawn by you. This covers most of the syllabus of the Organic Chemistry for G.C.E. A/L examination. Features … Continue reading →

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Apache Axis2/C RESTful URL Mapping Algorithm

Posted on November 21, 2008 by dimuthu

Few weeks back I wrote a blog post about Writing RESTful Services in C which explain the use of Axis2/C REST API. Basically when you provide a HTTP Method (GET, POST, PUT or DELETE) and a HTTP URL, it is … Continue reading →

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Is Down Economy a Problem To Impelement SOA? Come to Open Source..

Posted on November 20, 2008 by dimuthu

As the slow down of the economy your company may not tend to invest large amount of dollars to implement SOA in to your enterprise. But with the open source products you can implement your SOA platform with the same … Continue reading →

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WS-SecurityPolicy With PHP

Posted on November 19, 2008 by dimuthu

WS-SecurityPolicy specification defines standards for defining security policies for your web service. WSF/PHP allows you to declare your security policies according to these standards. You can take one of following approaches to associate policies to your web service or client. … Continue reading →

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Signing SOAP Headers In PHP Web Services

Posted on November 18, 2008 by dimuthu

Non-Repudiation and Integrity are two main security issues addressed by signing a message. If you are writing a web service or a service consumer in PHP you can use the WSF/PHP toolkit to sign messages. Here is how you can … Continue reading →

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Detect Replay Attacks In to Your PHP Web Service

Posted on November 17, 2008 by dimuthu

Replay attack is a common kind of attack, the hackers are using to break the security of a web service. If you can intercept one soap message while it is transferring through the wire, you can replay that message to … Continue reading →

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RESTful URL Mapping in WSF/PHP

Posted on November 16, 2008 by dimuthu

In a RESTful design, choose of URLs for resources are really important. The URL uniquely represents a resource. Service consumers can change some parts in the URL to access different other resources. So it is clear that the URL consists … Continue reading →

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