Web Services Q&A - April/May/June 2003 |
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1. Does Sybase have a Web services tutorial? There are numerous resources available to help you get started with Web services.
For a high-level overview
of how other Sybase products support Web services, see Sybase
Web Services - Evolution of Integration Functionality. 2. What is the status of security for Web services? For information about security in EAServer Web services, see http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1023845#b3. 3. Does Sybase have tips/instructions for using Web services in EAServer 3.6.1? EAServer 4.1 and above includes the Web Services Toolkit, so you should upgrade to the latest release. Since EAServer 3.6.1 will be end-of-lifed on October 31, 2003, you should not be using it for new development projects. Please note the End Of Life Notification for EAServer 3.5, 3.6 and 3.6.1: http://www.sybase.com/detail?id=1017373. 4. Can the PowerBuilder 9 SOAP connection object be used through a proxy server? If so, how? If you wish to access something -- whether it be a program or Web page or a Web service -- that sits behind a firewall, then you need to use whatever technique is required to allow access behind that firewall. For example, you would need to authenticate using VPN or some API calls from your home computer to be able to access the business systems at your office. Once you establish the connection from your home computer and your office network, then you can run the business systems as usual. If you wish to use a Web browser to call a Web service that lives behind a firewall, then you would first need to use whatever connection mechanism is required to give to access behind that firewall, before the Web browser could be expected to receive a response. Similarly, if you wish to consume a Web service from a PB client application, you would first need to establish a connection to get access behind the firewall. When establishing a SOAP connection using HTTPS, The SetOptions method on the SoapConnection object allows you to specify a UserID and Password. However, due to a current limitation in PowerBuilder 9, the UserID and password are not passed along if there is a proxy server included. This feature is being tracked as CR 319114, which we are targeting/hoping to address in the PowerBuilder 9.01 maintenance release. A couple other notes:
5. How can I develop Web applications in PowerBuilder? Here are some resources
to get you started:
In addition, refer to
past Web Services Q&As for similar questions and additional information. 6. What is the minimal software required to simply expose stored procedures in a Sybase DB as a Web service end point? The minimum necessary
software is one of two things: 2. The easier way is
to use Sybase EAServer. EAServer has the ability to proxy stored procedures
as components running in EAServer. EAServer contains built in Web services
support, with a simple wizard based interface for exposing the web service,
writing the WSDL, and then servicing all requests. And, since EAServer
is a separate server, it does not open up potential security holes by
allowing anyone to talk to the database directly on an HTTP port.
For more information,
see the EAServer
Web Services Toolkit User Guide, and the Application
Integrator for Stored Procedures Reference Manual. 7. Are there Sybase tools for creating html forms for web-tier (browser) access to database tables? Yes. There are two of
them, actually. |
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