Category Archives: web services

Sending Encrypted Binary Messages With PHP Web Services

Posted on December 14, 2008 by dimuthu

Web services has made the communication between heterogeneous environments (say PHP with .NET  or Java) a reality. It has defines standards for communicate not only with texts but also with binaries. And more importantly you can keep these communication confidential … Continue reading →

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Calling Simple Web Services From Javascript

Posted on December 11, 2008 by dimuthu

If you are a web developer, you may have found many occasions you have to create simple mashups for your web site. There you call web services or data services to fill the content of the web page. Most of … Continue reading →

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PHP Data Services with PostgreSQL

Posted on December 7, 2008 by dimuthu

LAMP (Linux + Apache + Mysql + PHP) stack powers many servers in the Internet today. For a LAMP  server, PostgreSQL could be the first alternative to Mysql. Similar to PHP + MySQL,  PHP + PostgreSQL too can be easily … Continue reading →

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Using AXIOM/C As The XML Object Model

Posted on December 3, 2008 by dimuthu

In Apache Axis2/C AXIOM is used as the basic object model to represent XML. AXIOM provide a DOM like API that allows to traverse and build the XML very easily. Anyway in underneath, AXIOM is different from DOM, as it … Continue reading →

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Writing a Mashup with Maps and Weather

Posted on December 1, 2008 by dimuthu

Few weeks back, I did a screencast on how to consume a web service using WSF/PHP demonstrating an application of US National Digital Weather Forecast Database. In that webservice there are operations like “GmlLatLonList” that retrieve a KML for a … Continue reading →

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Steps to Convert a SQL Query to a Data Service

Posted on November 27, 2008 by dimuthu

With WSF/PHP Data Service library, you can convert a SQL query to a Data Service very easily in few steps. Decide your SQL query first, For the query you may require some input parameters, and you have to decide what … Continue reading →

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WSO2 Carbon Explained In Pictures

Posted on November 27, 2008 by dimuthu

WSO2 Carbon is getting ready to come out very soon. You want to know what exactly WSO2 Carbon is?. Just check this samisa’s blog about “Carbon In Pictures”.

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5 Facts About WS-Addressing Action in WSF/PHP

Posted on November 26, 2008 by dimuthu

WS-Addressing Action is used by web services to dispatch the operation for an incoming request SOAP message. It is one way of dispatching operations in WSF/PHP and it base Apach Axis2/C, other ways are SOAP action based dispatching which covers … Continue reading →

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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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