Creating a VB.NET Client for a ColdFusion Web Service
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Interoperability is important to web services. The more platforms they can operate on, the more useful they are. This tutorial builds on an earlier one by showing that a web service created in ColdFusion (in a previous tutorial) can be consumed by a client written in Visual Basic.NET.
Introduction
One of the cherished goals of web services is interoperability. Interoperability in its widest definition embraces different kinds of machine platforms (Intel Pentium, Apple, mainframes); operating with different operating systems, including Windows of all flavors, Mac, and Unix; and running applications (or web services) created by different kinds of programming software (Vb.Net, C#, Java, ColdFusion, Perl, Python, etc). The WS-I (Web Services Interoperability organization) whose members come from diverse organizations will oversee the development of web services specifications so that they will have the widest applicability.
In an earlier tutorial (which you can find here) it was shown that web services developed on a Microsoft .NET platform residing on a IIS server could be easily consumed by a client program written in ColdFusion. In this tutorial the web service created in ColdFusion is consumed by a client program written in Microsoft's VB.Net language. For the purposes of this tutorial we assume that the web service created by ColdFusion from an earlier tutorial is available on the IIS server.
The web service will be described first, followed by the description of how the client is created.
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