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Light weight WebService "Server"


2005-05-06 12:44:22 AM
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I am looking for something where a regular EXE can host a web service. The goal
being to have a server make calls to an exe running on another machine.
Or, are there other solutions? Here is what I want to do:
I want to install an exe on machines at the office. This exe will "register"
itself with a server. When the server needs to, it can call a method in the exe
via the WebService it provides.
William Egge
www.eggcentric.com
 
 

Re:Light weight WebService "Server"

William Egge writes:
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I am looking for something where a regular EXE can host a web
service.
The RemObjects SDK does exactly this.
www.remobjects.com
Elegant, powerful, great support.
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Kevin Powick
 

Re:Light weight WebService "Server"

KBMMW will do this for you aswell.
 

Re:Light weight WebService "Server"

"Billy" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
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KBMMW will do this for you aswell.
www.components4programmers.com/products/kbmmw/index.htm
 

Re:Light weight WebService "Server"

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>KBMMW will do this for you aswell.

www.components4programmers.com/products/kbmmw/index.htm
Hi
I have used both products, RemObjects and kbmmw. Both are very capable, and
you will be able to accomplish your goals with either.
The products however come from different backgrounds and have different
strengths.
RemObjects started off as a remoting framework, focused on web services and
suchlike, and extended from that base to to provide n-tier data based
applications over that remoting framework.
kbmmw started off as a dataset-based n-tier framework, and I believe (IIRC)
SOAP web services were added much later.
I feel that for the OP's specific stated task of implementing web services,
RO has significant strengths and advantages. RemObjects for example provides
a powerful GUI tool, the 'service builder', for defining the services. It
has 'smart services' for switching between SOAP based transports and
efficient binary transports depending on what kind of client it is talking
to. etc.
On the other hand, although I have not used/investigated it, the kbmmw team
suggest that their messaging framework is very good, and a key strength of
that product. This might also be relevant to the OP. Both products have
messaging frameworks, but they seem to have different visions of where they
are going it and how they do it. It is not necessarily clear that one or the
other is simply 'the best', I think it would depend on what you need and
want to do with it.
In any case, I'd recommend to the OP to, as always, check them both out
and see what works best for him. The best thing would be to try both out in
the context of his own specific requirements.
HTH,
Lauchlan Mackinnon [Team RO]