spacer
Yehuda Shiran March 27, 2002
Structuring the Web Service Consumer
Tips: March 2002

Yehuda Shiran, Ph.D.
Doc JavaScript

Developer News
OpenOffice 3.2 Lands Amid Critical Changes
Red Hat, IBM Firmly in KVM Virtualization Camp
Red Hat Talks Up Open Source Cloud Plans

To consume a Web service, you need to write an HTML page. The other document you need to write is an XSL file for printing the data coming from the Web service. The HTML page can be written in less than 35 lines, and is divided into four parts:

  • HTML Section
  • Variable initialization section
  • The init() function
  • The onWSresult() function

The HTML section instantiates the webservice.htc behavior and takes care of the user interface, for both the inputs and the outputs. We instantiate the webservice.htc behavior in a DIV element, but it can be associated with the document's BODY tag as well. The webservice.htc behavior does not do any I/O by itself, so it doesn't matter which tag you associate it with. Here is the DIV statement:

<DIV ID="service" STYLE="behavior:url(webservice.htc)" 
  ONRESULT="onWSresult()"></DIV>
Learn more about consuming the StockQuote Web service from Column 105, Web Services, Part X: Consuming the StockQuote.


People who read this tip also read these tips:

Look for similar tips by subject:


The Network for Technology Professionals

Search:

About Internet.com

Legal Notices, Licensing, Permissions, Privacy Policy.
Advertise | Newsletters | E-mail Offers

webref The latest from WebReference.com Browse >
Search Engine Optimization: Selecting and Embedding Keywords · Are Google's Language Translation Web Services Ready for Prime Time? · Installing and Using Meeplace, the Business Review CMS
Sitemap · Experts · Tools · Services · Email a Colleague · Contact FREE Newsletters 
 The latest from internet.com
IBM DB2 10 for z/OS: Justifying the Upgrade · Living La Vida Colo: Choosing the Right Colocation Facility · FTC Concerns over Social Media Privacy Linger