Wow…how time flies J .We have already hit half the year without even realizing it. One of the most frequent questions I get is about SOAP so I figured I will touch a bit on XML and XPath since anyone working with web services has to deal with them at some stage. A SOAP message which is basically XML can be summed up in the following image:

The envelope element encapsulates all the other elements to form our SOAP message. Let’s walk through a sample SOAP response message and see what we can make of it:

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The last few weeks have been very busy so apologies for not posting. As of IC 3.0 SU11 (SU10 w/ SU10-ES_IC-79127) we added support for oAuth, which is the underlying technology that lets us integrate to Gmail. OAuth lets us access user data without us knowing what the user password is. There are basically two parts to it:

Enable oAuth if it hasn’t been already enabled (Advanced Tools>Authentication>Manage OAuth Domain Key) in the Gmail setup console.

We need to enable ‘consumer key’ and ‘two-legged oAuth control’. Enable SMTP and IMAP providers in Interaction Administrator.

Once we have Gmail configured, [...]

Soap Listener is one of those products which is not talked about a lot but is one of the easiest ways to bring up a web service which talks to CIC. It runs as an ISAPI filter in IIS, filtering requests as they come in giving us ability to enhance the functionality of IIS. My environment uses Windows 2008 64bit running IIS 7 and it requires some additional tasks so we will talk a bit about installation in this post. In a series of posts, we will bring up a web service and get it to do something useful.

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