How to make a C++ application available on the Web

[Farzin Imani]

Hi all,
I am new to web services. I have written an application program in C++ that
I would like to make it available through the web. The application program
gets a short text string as its input and generates a JPEG image. How can I
make it available through web services?
I have read some books for SOAP and Web Services in Java and C# but I have
not seen a practical book for C++. If .NET is the fast way please let me
know where should I start.
Thanks,
Farzin

 

[Lee H Fuller]

Hi all,
I am new to web services. I have written an application program in C++ that
I would like to make it available through the web. The application program
gets a short text string as its input and generates a JPEG image. How can I
make it available through web services?
I have read some books for SOAP and Web Services in Java and C# but I have
not seen a practical book for C++. If .NET is the fast way please let me
know where should I start.
Thanks,
Farzin

You can use ATL Server to create a web service in unmanaged C++, which
basically gives you an ISAPI filter and thus is independent of
ASP.NET. Alternatively, you could knock up a C# .asmx web service,
which then calls your C++ code either via interop / COM (wrapping your
C++ code into a COM component or a vanilla DLL) or move your C++ into
being managed code (and thus make use of the .NET libraries).

Here are some articles to get you going on ATL Server:

http://www.codeproject.com/atl/atlserver.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...hroughbuildingwebservicewithunmanagedcode.asp

Cheers,

Lee.