Coldfusion : Create and consume web service in coldfusion

To Create a webservice in coldfusion all we need to do is create cfc first and write a function having acess as “remote”. That’s it.Coldfusion will automatically create a WSDL file for this webservice which can be viewed through browser (localhost:8500/Coldfusion/webservice/User.cfc?wsdl) or through coldfusion administrator (Data Services à web services)

<!---  User.cfc --->

<cfcomponent output="false">

      <cffunction access="remote" name="display_user" returntype="string">

            <cfargument name="user" type="string">

            <cfreturn "Hello" &  ' ' & user>

      </cffunction>

</cfcomponent>

The above created web service can be consumed in coldfusion as follow –

<!--- display_user.cfm --->

<cfinvoke  webservice="http://localhost:8500/coldfusion/webservice/user.cfc?wsdl"

            method="display_user"

          returnvariable="return_message" >

            <cfinvokeargument  name="user" value="dattatray">

</cfinvoke>

<cfoutput>#return_message#</cfoutput>