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Web Connection features a number of features for building Distributed and Enterprise
applications that don't rely on HTML to provide the interface. You can use a Fat
Client VFP application to request data and logic to fire on the server and retrieve
that data to the VFP app. Or you can use a dynamic DHTML/scripted Browser application
to request data from the server and then manipulate the browser's content via script
code from the data retrieved on the Web server.
XML features heavily in this environment and Web Connection provides a host of features
for XML conversions as well as server based XML services that allow client apps
to simply request data.
XML Generation
Distributed Applications
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XML Output from Objects and Cursors
Note: The following examples require IE 5.0 or later to view
the XML data displays. Other browsers may not display the content or display it
as text only.
XML is vital to the Web as a data sharing facility and Web Connection provides you
with the tools to integrate this hot technology easily into your existing client
and server apps. Web Connection's wwXML class provides easy XML conversions that
allow you to quickly move from VFP data and objects to and from XML. The following
examples demonstrate data exports, but wwXML also includes XML imports to repopulate/create
cursors and objects.
VFP and SQL Cursor XML Conversions:
Customer table presented as
XML (w/ Schema | Show
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This example demonstrates simple data exports to XML using wwXML::CursorToXML().
Note that the output contains a DTD or Schema with structure information that makes
it possible for the client to create data structures on its own. Note the schema
version requires MSXML
2.6 or later.
SQL Server Pubs tables presented as
XML (w/ Schema | Show Code)
This example demonstrates the same functionality for generating XML from an ODBC
datasource using the wwXML::SQLCursorToXML() method. Note: Since VFP returns ODBC
data in cursors you can always use SQL Passthrough or Remote views and CursorToXML()
to convert this data into XML directly without use of this method.
Object XML conversions:
Simple Customer Object presented as
XML (w/ Schema | Show Code)
This example dumps a record to an object using SCATTER NAME and then exports the
object to XML with a DTD or Schema.
Hierarchical Invoice Object presented
as XML (Show
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Invoice Class)
This example creates a complex business object that contains several sub-objects.
An invoice 'container' object with an oCustomer and aLineItems subobjects that host
the customer and line item information. wwXML can render this object structure as
hierarchical XML.
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Fat Client VFP Samples
Web Connection provides a number of features for building rich Client/Server applications
that do not require a browser front end. Instead you can use a VFP client application
to communicate with a Web Connection backend. You can drive Web applications using
the HTTP protocol with just a few lines of code. The examples demonstrate simple
retrieval of Web content, controlling an application via HTTP, exchanging data between
VFP clients and Servers and using a Web Connection server as an HTTP based database
server. You can also compile wwHTTPDemo.pjx in the \wwIPStuff_samples directory
and run this app from within Visual FoxPro's IDE to avoid using IE.
VFP Fat Client HTTP Demos
(download this file to your local hard drive into a temporary
directory and execute through Explorer or from within Visual FoxPro.
Don't just 'Open' or 'Run' this file from the download dialog - this will
fail due to the inability to unpack the support files in Temporary Internet Files)
Web based Soap Client for stock quotes
The following example demonstrates server to server communication by retrieving
stock quotes from a remote server (www.west-wind.com) which in turn receives stock
quotes from an HTML page on the msn.MoneyCentral site. The Web application uses
SOAP to communicate with the Web server from a Web application.
Stock Portfolio Example
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Asynchronous Server Calls
Run Asynchronous XML Request
This sample request simulates a long running report that's offloaded to another
process for processing, while leaving the Web Connection server(s) free to process
other requests with progress provided via browser polling. Uses the wwAsyncWebRequest
class to submit and retrieve events in a VFP or SQL Server table driven event manager.
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