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How to save webservice SOAP response to xml in android SD card? [migrated]

I have a SOAP webservice from an application aspnet, and do not know how to generate a file on the sdcard of my device for future reading. What are the steps? I read the webservice with ksop2? ...
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SOAP traffic generator

I'm trying to build a SOAP message generator that will generate SOAP messages of different kinds that I have specified. Each of these messages also has a reply that will be coming back. The meaning of ...
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In developing a soap client proxy, which return structure is easier to use and more sensible?

I'm writing (in PHP) a client/proxy for a SOAP web service. The return types are consistently wrapped in response objects that contain the return values. In many cases this make a lot of sense - for ...
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What is the difference between SOAP and Web Services?

Keep getting confused about these two. Anyone care to explain the difference(s)?
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AGPL License - does it apply in this scenario?

There is an AGPLv3 based software (Client) that makes web service calls (using SOAP) to another software (Server - commercial, cloud based). There is no common code or any connection whatsoever ...
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Should I use both WCF and ASP.NET Web API

We already have a WCF API with basichttpbinding. Some of the calls have complex objects in both the response and request. We need to add RESTful abilities to the API. at first I tried adding a ...
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Design thoughts on a schema based request object for CXF endpoint

Trying to seek design suggestion on a schema based request object for a CXF endpoint. I've created a CXF SOAP endpoint which takes the following object as an input. The request object will have ...
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Ajax application: using SOAP vs REST ?

I'm building an ajax heavy application (client-side strictly html/css/js) which will be getting all the data and using server business logic via webservices. I know REST seems to be the hot topic but ...
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Is WCF a good fit for this problem?

I'm working to implement a data service solution that has 2 request functions but can respond with one of 3 transmission types: x12 EDI HTTP MIME multipart SOAP/XML + WSDL I would also need to ...
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Web Service - SOAP

My experience with web services is slim and I'm trying to understand this a little bit more. I have done for instance a web service using visual studio. In order to use it, I add a web service ...
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Advice on which technologies to use for a client-server desktop application

I am writing a desktop application in Java which will allow clients to authenticate to a server with their credentials, and afterwards view and manipulate some data (orders, invoices, employees etc.) ...
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JavaScript client for talking with WCF server with WebSockets binding

I'm excited about the possibilities for duplex communication with WebSockets between a web browser and web server. I see that WCF for .NET 4.5 supports a WebSockets binding now, and I know there's a ...
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What security is used by default in WSHttpBinding (service side) or the WCF Test client (client side)?

I recently moved a service from BasicHttpBinding to WSHttpBinding (i.e. soap 1.1 -> soap 1.2). In WCF, using WSHttpBinding() makes it start using some default security settings. I presume the same ...
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Client/Server Application Using Google App Engine

Can someone please advise me what is the possible solution of using GAE to make a Client/Serer Application? As far as I know, GAE is designed to do web applications. What I want to do is to have a ...
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What's the best way to implement a browser-based SOAP client?

We have an existing architecture of enterprise SOAP webservices based on JavaEE 6 that transfers large payloads of data. We want to develop a browser based front end for these sevices, and I would ...
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What was SOAP invented for?

This question is inspired by this one. What was the initial goal of inventing SOAP? Why was it invented when we had old kind HTTP and REST?
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What are the deciding factors in choosing to expose a web service as a SOAP or REST service?

As far as I can see consuming SOAP requires a SOAP stack, so it is harder for your clients to consume i.e. they need to ensure that they have a SOAP stack in place that formats the POST data and the ...
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How do I convince my boss to use REST over SOAP?

We need to create an API to our system. How do I convince my boss that REST is a better option than SOAP (or XML-RPC)? I say REST is... easier to implement and maintain not much new to learn -- ...
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Future of SOAP, with REST?

Considering that more and more Web Services are implementing a RESTful interface, I am wondering what the future of SOAP will be? I'm looking for any kind of papers, statistics, articles or ...
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What's the best practice to do SOA exception handling?

Here's some interesting debate going on between me and my colleague when coming to handle SOA exceptions: On one side, I support what Juval Lowy said in Programming WCF Services 3rd Edition: As ...
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Why do people think SOAP is deprecated?

While browsing SO today I found this question here and it starts with this: Sure, you're gonna tell me that SOAP is depracated and all, well i'm forced to use it Found lots of statement like ...