This could also be considered part three of my HowTo: Put WSDL on Rails series, but it’s not really a HowTo in the strictest sense of the word. Therefore, this article is more of a monologue than a set of instructions. If you’ve stuck with me this far you’ve probably figured out that I’m discovering things on my own shortly before I spew them all out here. In Howto: Put WSDL on Rails we built [...]

In the first article about WSDL on Rails we created our own web service that accepted a string, modified it, and returned a new string. Now we’ll take a look at creating another application that can consume or subscribe to our web service. This is almost too easy. I figure the best way to demonstrate the simplicity is to keep this article as short as possible. 1. Fire up the old WebServiceProvider application that we [...]

In class today, there was a demonstration on how to get Apache/Axis/Tomcat running to demo some SOAP web services written in Java. As I plug Rails again, I was again amazed at the simplicity with which Rails handles all this. I began to think that there might be some interest in Rails web services for those other members in my class, so in an attempt to help them out, I decided to provide instructions on [...]