iControl Traning ....

Good question, and excellent suggestion. We should have a diagram.. I'll chat with Joe about that one.

 

 

To answer your question, iControl is the collection of web services, but if you download the API and you build it, you are actually building the client piece. That's why Apache Axis is required for the API (unless you do a lot more work, like we did with the Blackberry project because Axis isn't supported on most Blackberries) - it is the communication tool, the "middleware" so-to-speak. When you make a call, Axis encodes it to make it a right-pretty Web Services call, then Axis takes the response and decodes it before returning to you.

 

 

On the Blackberry platform, we're using kSOAP 2 (http://ksoap2.sourceforge.net/), a light SOAP encoding mechanism for communications.

 

 

Does that clear it up?

 

Don.