GT 3.9.4 C WS Core: User's Guide

Introduction

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Command-line tools

  • globus-wsc-container for C WS Core

    Tool description

    This command starts the C WS container, allowing WS and WSRF-enabled services to be invoked. globus-wsc-container must be running to invoke services written using the WS C core.

    Features

    • The container can be run in the background with the -bg option, and -pidfile allows the pid of the process to written to a specified file. This is useful for scripting the command, especially when running tests, or when the container process is expected to have a short lifetime.
    • Supports HTTPS with the -secure option

    Limitations

    • The C container does not have a shutdown command (the Java container has globus-stop-container). To shutdown the C container, you can either CRTL-C the process, or kill the process with the process ID (use -pidfile) is named globus-wsc-container
    • The option for running over secure transport (https) is -secure. In future releases, secure transport will be enabled by default, and will be turned off with -nosec

    Command syntax

    Run: globus-wsc-container -help

  • globus-wsrf-cgen for C WS Core

    Tool description

    This tool generates C bindings from a set of WSDL schema files. The tool is able to generate client bindings, service bindings, just types, or all three. The WSDL to C mapping document gives more information on how WSDL is mapped to the C programming language.

    Command syntax

    Run: globus-wsrf-cgen -help

    Limitations

    • Only generates bindings from document/literal style WSDL schemas. For more information on WSDL schema styles, go here.
    • Only generates ANSI-C bindings. C++ bindings are not supported.

Graphical user interfaces

Overview of the purpose and functionality of the GUI

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Command and options

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Limitations

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Troubleshooting

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