Comusming both CFMX and Java Web Services

July 23, 2004 · No Comments

Strangely enough, creating Java web services is just as easy as creating ColdFusion web services. And you can easily consume both. Here's a ridiculously easy and completely useless example of how to do it. First, our .cfc

Nothing there you haven't seen before. Now for our Java Web Service.

public class HelloWebService
{
   public String getHello()
   {
      return "Hello, I'm a Java Web Service";
   };
};

I think it's fairly obvious what's happening in the code above. Now to consume it all you need is something like so...

<ul>
   <li><a href="webservice.cfm?ws=CFML">CFML Hello webservice</a></li>
   <li><a href="webservice.cfm?ws=JAVA">JAVA Hello webservice</a></li>
</ul>

<cfif IsDefined("url.ws")>
   <cfswitch expression="#url.ws#">
   <cfcase value="cfml">
   <cfset objHello = createObject('webservice',
'http://dev.creative-restraint.co.uk/HelloWebService.cfc?WSDL')>
   <cfoutput>
   #objHello.getHello()#
   </cfoutput>
   </cfcase>
   <cfcase value="JAVA">
   <cfset objHello = createObject('webservice',
'http://dev.creative-restraint.co.uk/HelloWebService.jws?WSDL')>
   <cfoutput>
   #objHello.getHello()#
   </cfoutput>
   </cfcase>
   </cfswitch>
</cfif>

And there you go. A completely useless example but at least you know you can do it. Oh, I should point out that this works on CFMX Standard as well as Enterprise.

Tags: ColdFusion · Java

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