Web Services 101

[Paiz]

So I was looking around the ColdFusion Administrator and noticed the Web Services section. Does anyone have a link or a "how to" on how to use this section to register a WSDL and access it with coldfusion?

[ksmith]

How about Using Web Services in the ColdFusion Developer's Guide? If you are trying to publish web services using ColdFusion, you should start by reading about CF components.

[Paiz]

Thank you for link to the docs, but it doesn't really talk about "registering" a web service inside of the Coldfusion administrator. How would you register a WSDL in CF and use it in your code?

[Dan_Bracuk]

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Originally posted by: Paiz
Thank you for link to the docs, but it doesn't really talk about "registering" a web service inside of the Coldfusion administrator. How would you register a WSDL in CF and use it in your code?

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My experience is that once you write it, the first time you invoke it, it registers itself. It takes a few seconds but it only happens once.

[Daverms]

Hi,

If you want to register your webservice open up the "Coldfusion Administrator" panel ( http://localhost/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm) and click the "Web Services" link in the left frame under the "Data & Services" menu.

The benefit of registering a webservice is you need not to specify the Webservice url when your invoking, instead you just provide the name you already registered.

HTH