Test availablity of a Web Service

[Waldy]

Hi Guys,
is there a quick and easy way of testing the availablity of a
web service before making the actual web service call?

Waldy.

[John Saunders [MVP]]

"Waldy" <so*****@microsoft.comwrote in message
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Hi Guys,
is there a quick and easy way of testing the availablity of
a web service before making the actual web service call?

Not really. In particular, what does "available" mean to you?

Consider that you could create a "Ping" operation in your web service. Your
client could call that operation to determine if the web service is
installed correctly. Yet, it's possible that as soon as you call one of your
"real" operations, it can't connect to the database. Was the service
"available"?
--
John Saunders [MVP]

[Waldy]

Hi there,
what I mean is rather run through my code preparing the data
e.t.c. only to fail on the web service call, is there a simple call to tell
me yes or no whether the remote server is up and running.

Regards,

Steve W.

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"Waldy" <so*****@microsoft.comwrote in message
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>Hi Guys,
is there a quick and easy way of testing the availablity of
a web service before making the actual web service call?

Not really. In particular, what does "available" mean to you?

Consider that you could create a "Ping" operation in your web service.
Your client could call that operation to determine if the web service is
installed correctly. Yet, it's possible that as soon as you call one of
your "real" operations, it can't connect to the database. Was the service
"available"?
--
John Saunders [MVP]

[John Saunders [MVP]]

"Waldy" <so*****@microsoft.comwrote in message
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Hi there,
what I mean is rather run through my code preparing the data
e.t.c. only to fail on the web service call, is there a simple call to
tell me yes or no whether the remote server is up and running.

As I said below,

Not really. In particular, what does "available" mean to you?

--
John Saunders [MVP]

>
Regards,

Steve W.

"John Saunders [MVP]" <john.saunders at trizetto.comwrote in message
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>"Waldy" <so*****@microsoft.comwrote in message
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>>Hi Guys,
is there a quick and easy way of testing the availablity
of a web service before making the actual web service call?

Not really. In particular, what does "available" mean to you?

Consider that you could create a "Ping" operation in your web service.
Your client could call that operation to determine if the web service is
installed correctly. Yet, it's possible that as soon as you call one of
your "real" operations, it can't connect to the database. Was the service
"available"?
--
John Saunders [MVP]