ColdBox web services from another cf web app

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I apologize I just now noticed the format for posting questions that were laid out by Luis. This is for ColdBox 3.5.2 (SEEK)

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Are you tryin to do soap or restful services?

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Luis,

Thanks for responding. I was simply trying to call/use the coldbox proxy via a simple from a different coldfusion (non-coldbox) web application, like so:

<cfinvoke webservice="[http://dev.in.coldbox.org/mycbox/coldboxproxy.cfc?wsdl](http://dev.in.coldbox.org/mycbox/coldboxproxy.cfc?wsdl)" method="test" returnvariable="testResult"></cfinvoke>

and of course in the coldboxapp/mycbox/coldboxproxy.cfc I have:

<cffunction name="test" output="false" access="remote" returntype="any" hint="Process a remote call and return data/objects back.">
<cfset var results = "">
`<cfset results = "got remote call">`
<cfreturn results>
</cffunction>

I kept getting error “Unable to read WSDL from URL: dev.in.coldbox.org.mycbox.coldboxproxy”

I never bothered to really think about what a CFC returns or what protocol it was using when being a asked to behave as a web service, but I gather now that it’s a SOAP request, unless you tell me otherwise.

It appears to be working correctly now and I suspect it had to do with the caching of the WSDL by coldfusion server. I am now seeing the expected results in the calling page from the remote method.

I will eventually make this a RESTful request, but this was my first stab at doing a webservice call to functionality in a coldbox app and was having a time trying to figure out why something (I thought was straightforward) was not working as expected.

Long answer for your simple question about soap vs rest, but I wanted to explain for the benefit of some other person who may one day come across a similar issue and searching the coldbox platform group postings.

Thanks again.

Francisco