Web Services Examples

Learning Resources...
Published DataFlex powered Web Services are available to assist developers with learning and testing Web Services in their applications. Learn more about creating Web Services in the DataFlex Online Help.

The "Conversions" DataFlex Web Service, developed by DAW’s Marcia Booth, provides a variety of functions that will convert numbers into words (English), numbers into dollar amounts, and texts into title-cased texts.

The service can be tried by anyone by visiting the Conversions DataFlex Web Service page hosted by Data Access Worldwide.

The Conversions service has already been found useful by one enthusiastic VB.net developer:

I wanted to thank you for providing an extraordinary web service by way of your Conversions WSDL! I’ve consumed this service in a practice smart client app and was utterly amazed at how it all works! If I had to write the code to convert numbers to words it would take a considerable amount of time. I was able to set up a few lines of code and consume your conversions service in LESS than 5 minutes! It’s just a practice app but your WSDL is great! Your web service was the first one I’ve consumed programmatically! Thanks!

Brice R.
VB.Net WinForms Developer

The "Anagram" DataFlex Web Service, developed by DAW’s Vincent Oorsprong, demonstrates functions to test your knowledge about anagrams. There are functions to test if a word is an anagram, how many words are stored etc. Anagrams can be stored in multiple languages.

Other available DataFlex Web Services include:

• Arendsoog - This webservice contains information about the a Dutch book series called Arendsoog. The 64 books were published between 1934 and 1995. The books are mainly written in Dutch, the titles and detail information will be in Dutch.
• Country information - This DataFlex Web Service opens up country information. 2 letter ISO codes are used for Country code. There are functions to retrieve the used Currency, Language, Capital City, Continent and Telephone code.
• Dates - DataFlex Web Service for All kind of Date Features such as Daynames, MonthNames etc.
• Elfproef - DataFlex Web Service for Checksums based on the ’ElfProef’. The ’ElfProef’ is a CRC technique determine if a number is a valid number where the sum of the passed digits divided by 11 must be a integer. Security Note: No information about the passed numbers will be stored, we only count the number of times anyone used one of the functions of this webservice for statistic reports.
• Error Information - This DataFlex WebService can be used to get information about an error that can occur in a system. The errors are not DataFlex specific.
• ISBN - DataFlex Web Service to validate ISBN numbers.
• Temperature - DataFlex Web Service to convert temperature values between Celsius and Fahrenheit. Can also return the windchill temperature.

Building client applications to consume Web Services with DataFlex is fast and easy! You just need to run the DataFlex Studio’s “Web Service Client Class Generator” to have a package automatically created. After the package is part of their class list, you can add the service to any of your DataFlex applications.

All business solution developers are welcome to try these Web Services. Note that any developer – not just DataFlex developers – can use these DataFlex Web Services in their applications.

Developers interested in having DAW publish a DataFlex Web Service that they feel would be beneficial to business solutions developers are encouraged to contact Marcia Booth at Data Access in Miami.