ColdFusion WS Consumer for a WS Created in VS2003
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If you are developing in ColdFusion and you want a background in VS Studio 2003 for web services development, then this tutorial is for you. It is about a Web Service Consumer using ColdFusion accessing a Web Service created in VS 2003.
Introduction
There are two examples in this tutorial. The first example creates a web service in VS 2003 that does not take any argument. The consumer (ColdFusion user) accesses this service using ColdFusion scripting, <cfscript/>. The second example creates a web service using the VS2003 IDE which accepts arguments. This time the ColdFusion client uses the tag based syntax to call this service by sending arguments. The motivation for this step by step guidance is for the user to develop the necessary hands-on skill to work with web services using two different programming languages.
ColdFusion Server with IIS
In order to run the code in this tutorial and to use ColdFusion with IIS, you need to install the ColdFusion server that is supported by IIS. The detailed step-by-step procedure is explained in the article Installing the ColdFusionMX Server. The ColdFusion MX 6.1 software is an application server that supports the ColdFusion specific scripting platform. ColdFusion MX 6.1 Server is supported by the Windows 2003 (IIS 6) server, Solaris 9, and Linux 8+ from several vendors. CFMX is a compiler that compiles CFMX to Java Bytecode; it used to be that CFML was first converted to Java source, which was then compiled. The 6.1 version goes directly from CFML to Bytecode. ColdFusion MX 7 and its updater ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 have also been released.
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