Connecting Cold Fusion to .NET Using Web Services

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Connecting Cold Fusion to .NET Using Web Services

• Geoff Snowman
• Developer Community Champion
• gsnowman_at_microsoft.com

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Connecting Cold Fusion to .NET Using Web Services

• What is .NET?
• ASP.NET Demo
• Web Services
• Cold Fusion/.NET Interop Demo
• UDDI
• Dynamic UDDI Demo
• Q A

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The Customer Perspective

• To remain ahead in this industry, you have to
  constantly deliver new solutions that continue to
  add value
• We needed a platform that not only enabled rapid
  time-to-market but one that would increase our
  ability to continually add new products and
  services.
• We chose the Microsoft platform

Bella Loykhler CIO
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.NET Microsofts Vision of a New Generation for
Application Development
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.NET Architecture
Visual Studio .NET
Common Language Runtime
Operating System
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Class Library Namespaces
System.Web
System.Windows.Forms
Services
UI
Design
ComponentModel
Description
HtmlControls
Discovery
WebControls
Protocols
System.Drawing
Caching
Security
Drawing2D
Printing
Configuration
SessionState
Imaging
Text
System.Data
System.Xml
OleDb
SqlClient
XSLT
Serialization
Common
SQLTypes
XPath
System
Collections
IO
Security
Runtime
InteropServices
Configuration
Net
ServiceProcess
Remoting
Diagnostics
Reflection
Text
Serialization
Globalization
Resources
Threading
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.NET Languages (Microsoft)

• Microsoft Visual Basic.NET
• Microsoft C
• Microsoft C (Managed/Unmanaged)
• Microsoft J

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.NET Languages (Others)

• APL
• Fujitsu COBOL
• Micro Focus COBOL
• Eiffel
• Forth
• FORTRAN 95
• Haskell
• Mercury
• Mondrian

• Oberon
• Pascal
• Perl
• Python
• RPG
• S
• Scheme
• Standard Meta Language

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Server Controls

• Programmable, server-side objects
• Properties, methods and events
• Encapsulate both behavior and rendering
• HTML, XML, WML, script, etc.
• You can create server controls
• Custom controls
• User controls
• Or derive from existing controls

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Demo ASP.NET
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XML Web Services Explained

• Internet connects entities together
• Email and WWW inherently cross boundaries
• XML Web Services applies the same platform
  neutral approach to system integration
• Platform Neutral
• Leverage Existing Standards
• No Rip and Replace

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XML Web ServicesFoundation for Programmable
Internet

• Based on public standards
• XML, XSD, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI
• Not bound to any single platform
• Protocol and format-based contract
• Loosely coupled programming
• Preserve and connect existing systems
• Broad industry support

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XML Web Services
Language Independent Platform Independent Device
Independent

• LOB J2EE App
• BEA Weblogic
• Oracle 8i
• Sun UE 10000

• SAP R/3
• DB2
• Solaris
• IBM RS/6000

• Motorola i85s
• J2ME

XML Web Services

• Compaq iPAQ
• Windows CE
• StrongARM

• PeopleSoft 7.0
• SQL 2000
• Windows 2000/.NET
• Compaq Proliant

• PERL
• Apache 2.0
• MySQL
• Linux

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• Promoters group for Web services
• Facilitate customer adoption
• Ensure interoperability
• Not a standards body
• Industry alignment around Web services
• First testing tools this year
• More info http//www.ws-i.org

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Microsoft .NET
Web services support across the Microsoft
platform
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Analyst Perspective On .NET

• .NET is a brilliant strategy that enables
  Microsoft to define the next shift in the
  software business.
  Gartner Group

Everyone should build on the XML/SOAP
foundation. Meta Group Gartner believes
Microsoft is now providing more vision and
influence regarding this shift than any other
vendor. Gartner Group .NET is a leading
example of what we believe will be the dominant
architectural model for the third generation of
Internet applications. Patricia
Seybold Group
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Demo A Simple Web Service
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Cold Fusion calls .NET
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Demo Cold Fusion calls .NET
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.NET calls Cold Fusion
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Demo .NET calls Cold Fusion
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Dollar Rent A Car
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Case Study Integrating Business Partners

• Organization
• One of the worlds largest car rental agencies
• More than 400 locations in 26 countries
• Business challenges
• Cost of acquiring new customers too high
• Needed to connect with diverse set of business
  partners to grow business
• Online travel sites, airlines, hotels, travel
  agents, Web site

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Solution Web Services
Network
XML/SOAP
Partner
Dollar.com Request
ASP
Web Services(SOAP Listener)(XML Parser)
XML/SOAP
MIT
ANY Internet Device
Results
Dollar.com
Dollar Reservations

• Dollar cost-effectively opened up another sales
  channel that has provided thousands of new
  reservations per year, equating to millions of
  dollars in additional revenue
• Partner connection richer, deeper and more
  dynamic live with 25 partners in 2 months!

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Customer Feedback
We knew exposing our reservation system as a Web
service would provide a standard interface that
could be used by a wide range of other
applications, both internal and external.
However, at the time, we had no idea just how
often we would use it, or the magnitude of the
benefits it would deliver. Peter Osbourne,
Group Manager, Advanced Technology Group
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Summary Enterprise Application Integration

• Yesterday Hardwired endpoints built with
  proprietary messaging frameworks
• Point to Point
• Difficult, Expensive
• Not business context driven
• Today Loosely coupled endpoints built on
  standard messaging framework
• End to End
• Easier, Lower Cost
• Business context driven