Re: NEWBIE question

Thanks for your help Tom. Its very difficult to get straight answers if
one doesn't know where to look.

Our app is based on VB6 Windows forms, both client and server and it is
segemented into multi-tiers. I am hoping only to have to modify the data
tier (the ADO level). The client side forms are easily modified into
.ocx's.

Our main problem was determining the best and most efficient manner of
transferring data, both new data and modified data, from a client app to
the server. Bearing in mind all sorts of security ramifications like
firewalls etc, I thought SOAP would possibly be the best possible
solution.

Where can I maybe get hold of an example or two of a similar scenario?

Regards
Wayne Roach
PereSoft Software
Email: [email protected]
Web:www.peresoft.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Bruns, Tom [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 07 January 2003 02:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [SOAP] NEWBIE question


Short answer yes.

I assume the following:
  Client and Server platforms are Windows based.

If you are using ADO 2.6 or greater you could:
  On the server side: "dehydrate" the Recordset into XML.
  Pass the XML between the tiers thru SOAP using the Soap Toolkit.
  On the client side: "rehydrate" the XML back into a recordset.

You state that your goal is to make the app web compliant...
  Is the current app:
        - based on VB6 Windows Forms ?
        - architected as a Client/Server ?

How does being "web compliant" impact your presentation tier?


Tom Bruns
Consultant
G.A. Sullivan
Suite 100
10200 Alliance Rd
Cincinnati, Ohio 45242
Ph: (513) 745-2100




-----Original Message-----
From: SUBSCRIBE SOAP Anonymous [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2003 5:00 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [SOAP] NEWBIE question


I am entirely new to SOAP, and basically really just want to know the
following before I waste anyones time - including my own.

We are converting our app to be web compliant. It is written in VB and
uses mainly ADO for data access. My first adventure along this line of
upgrade was to consider RDS to satisfy the transfer of data from server
to client, through ADO onto the client form but this is very slow and
tedious.

Therefore in a nutshell, my question is as follows: Can I make use of
SOAP to send and request data between a database on a server and a
client app, passing though ADO?

Any help or thoughts will be appreciated.

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