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William Egge
Delphi Developer |
William Egge
Delphi Developer |
Light weight WebService "Server"2005-05-06 12:44:22 AM delphi32 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 |
Kevin Powick
Delphi Developer |
2005-05-06 12:51:50 AM
Re:Light weight WebService "Server"
William Egge writes:
QuoteI am looking for something where a regular EXE can host a web Elegant, powerful, great support. -- Kevin Powick |
Billy
Delphi Developer |
2005-05-08 03:20:10 AM
Re:Light weight WebService "Server"
KBMMW will do this for you aswell.
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Uffe Kousgaard
Delphi Developer |
2005-05-08 03:38:45 AM
Re:Light weight WebService "Server"
"Billy" <XXXX@XXXXX.COM>writes
QuoteKBMMW will do this for you aswell. |
Lauchlan M
Delphi Developer |
2005-05-08 07:52:12 AM
Re:Light weight WebService "Server"Quote>KBMMW will do this for you aswell. 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] |