Hello, darnold924 has pointed out how to cosume REST services from Android. In addtion:
Consume REST services from iPhone: Use CFNetwork, as described in
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networking/Conceptual/CFNetwork/Introduction/Introduction.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001132.
You can find a sample on
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/Networking/Conceptual/CFNetwork/CFHTTPTasks/CFHTTPTasks.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30001132-CH5-SW2.
Consume SOAP services from iPhone: I'm not aware of a good solution. iPhone SDK doesn't seem to provide out-of-box support for SOAP services. You can refer to
http://www.icodeblog.com/2008/11/03/iphone-programming-tutorial-intro-to-soap-web-services/ for a sample on how to construct a SOAP message manually.
Consume REST services from Android: Use the AndroidHttpClient class, as described in
http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/http/AndroidHttpClient.html.
Consume SOAP services from Android: Once again, Android doesn't provide any out-of-box support for SOAP services. But you can find some third party open source libraries. For example, according to the tutorial on
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/android/webservice-from-android.aspx, you can use the
kSOAP 2 library.
Anyway, I recommend you to use REST services, which are supported by almost all platforms, because it is simply HTTP. Most devices do not have built-in support for SOAP services (although Windows Phone has some basic support). So if you use SOAP, you
may have a difficult time to work with your devices, as you have to search from a lot of open source libraries and try to make one work.
Lante, shanaolanxing This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
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