How to find all web services running on my system? - windows

Is there a way to find all the web services running in my system?specifically rest services if possible?I am using windows 7 system 64 bit.

Well, I think you are thinking in two different things...
The first is "services" running on your operating system (Windows 7), and a service could be more than a web service, for example your database or your application server.
The second, a web service is running (when it works fine) through a application server (JBoss, Weblogic, Glassfish), not in a operating system, so if you want to know your web services you must to log in into your application server and search them, or check in the folder of deployments to know about it.

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Glassfish 4.1.1, domain installed as a service does not restart as a service

I got a Glassfish 4.1.1 copy with two domains on Win2012R2 (no clusters, no instances). I've set a windows service for each of those.
Both services run regularly up until the moment when I restart either or both of them thru their admin web console (server (Admin Server) -> Restart). The following happens:
The domain-related service stops, but does not start again,
The allegedly stopped domain is perfectly functional (deployed apps and admin console are there) (!!!),
When I try to start the win service manually, I get Error 1067 (GF reports "something" is already listening on required ports and that's the domain itself that is now, somehow, NOT run as a service!),
I can start the service again only after I've stopped the domain thru server (Admin Server) -> Stop.
Why did I mention two domains? Because this does not happen when I have just one domain with its' service.
Domains do not share ports, only things in common are the JDK/JRE and general GF files.
Is this a bug in Glassfish or did I set something wrong?
This is a limitation, rather than a bug. The problem is that GlassFish has no way to tell whether or not it is running as a service (and, if it is, what the name of that service would be).
The restart command means that GlassFish is restarting itself, so Windows detects that the process it started has been terminated and shows the service as stopped, but GlassFish spawns a new JVM itself. It has no capability to tell Windows to start the service again.
Essentially, the behaviour you are seeing is expected.
After some more testing, I realized what was going on:
Glassfish is definitively capable of restarting its' own Windows service,
The thing that was happening is it takes GF a few seconds do this on its' own,
But, before GF domain could restart as a service, I clicked the URL to return to admin console, every time. That forced it to run as an ordinary executable.
It does seem like the restart happens faster with just one win service, but I won't claim that as an absolute truth without more testing, for which I have no time now.

non-IIS hosted WCF Services consumed over the internet connecting to back end Database over the internet

I am kind of new to system architecture. That is, all of my web apps have been relatively flat...two machines at the most running web client and database.
I have been handed the following architecture:
1 VMware machine will run the web application, an MVC 3 app.
1 VMWare machine will host the SQL Server database
1 VMWare machine will host the services.
The machine I'm confused about is the last one. From what I understand, the services project contains references to three other projects: the model, where the entity framework edmx resides, the entities project, which contains T4 templates that use the entity edmx file as input, and the business project which is where the actual business rules are implemented and the meat of the CRUD actions take place.
From what I understand, the intent is to not run an IIS WCF web services interface, but to make calls to WCF services (like those hosted in the MMC services snap in) on the machine over the internet. There is a deployment project in the solution for the services project but I don't know if it's configured properly. I think the idea is to just run the installer on the services machine and it will work.
My specific question is if there are any important things that I need to keep in mind when implementing, configuring, and deploying these services?
I'm kind of new to all of this. I was under the impression that you had to make calls to WCF services via IIS hosted endpoints and that you couldn't (or it at least was inadvisable) to make what amounts to RPC-like calls to machines over the internet.
Since you are new to WCF services, I suggest reading this MSDN article on Hosting and Consuming WCF services.
From what you describe, it looks like you are using Windows Service as a host for your WCF service.
The most common choice for a host is IIS because of its extensive features including self-starting services, ease of deployment, load balancing and so on.
Windows Service is a valid host, provided you can justify the question 'Why not IIS?'. Maybe, you need full control over the activation and lifetime of your WCF service. Not sure.
p.s. Ensure the account that your Windows Service runs under, has the minimum privileges.

Running the mongos Route Server as a Windows Service on 2008R2?

I want to run mongos (that's the mongo route server named mongos, not a malformed plural, but I digress) on the server that's hosting our application layer. I need to run as a Windows service and I have poured over the directions on 10Gen's website. However, the tool set they recommend (Windows Resource Kit) is for Server 2003 (and prior) and is not recommended for use on 64-bit platforms. All my application servers are 64-bit 2008r2.
The documentation implies that mongos as a Windows service may be supported beyond v1.8.1. Has anyone had success deploying mongos as a Windows service on a 2008 server? If there is no native support, is there another version of the resource kit, or did you roll your own service wrapper?
Thanks for any information you may have.
-Seth
The request to add built-in support for running mongos.exe as a Windows service (the way you can run mongod.exe as a service) is outstanding as https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-1589 -- you can vote for it to show your support.
srvany.exe does work in Windows Server 2008 R2 using the directions you referenced: I just tested it with MongoDB 2.0.2. The srvany.exe process is 32-bits, but it runs a 64-bit mongos.exe just fine.

Debugging a Windows CE application which uses a Microsoft Azure service

This question has probably less to do with actual programming and more to do with environment setup.
I'm developing an application for a Windows CE device, which will use a service hosted in Microsoft Azure. Obviously, this is all under development, and the service itself has not yet been uploaded to Azure. So I'm using the emulators provided by MS to deploy the service locally. Also, I don't think uploading the service to Azure just to debug it is a good idea, as that could net us a bill for Azure we don't yet want to pay.
Also, please note, I'm using VS2008 for the Windows CE project and VS2010 for the Azure project (thank you MS for dropping support for mobile devices -_-).
The problem is, the service seems to be accessible only via 127.0.0.1 or localhost, and if I physically connect a Windows CE device or use an emulated one, it becomes a new entity on the network, and cannot access that service any more.
How can I debug my Window CE application and have it see the service, whilst still being able to debug the service itself?
You are correct, the development fabric (the compute emulator that allows you to build an azure application and debug it locally) is only meant for local development. There are some hacks that allow you to get around that, but I wouldn't recommend it.
My recommendation would be to spin up the service in a more traditional hosting environment, at least in these early stages. You can define it as a web app just as you always would have, and get it functioning. Then, when you know its mostly complete, create a cloud service project and do an add existing to bring your web app into the cloud service solution. Once in, its a simple matter to add the web app as a web role.
From there, you can complete testing of the service in both the local and hosted azure environments as needed. This allows you to minimize your development costs while still leveraging the power of the cloud. As an upside, you also have done most of the basic work to ensure your service is compatible with multiple deployment scenarios giving you a greater degree of choice for its final production state.
OK, I don't know if this was intentional, or if I found one of the mentioned hacks, but I saw that IIS hosts the Azure site I created on port 5100, and the binding for this site is *, so it accepts all connections.
Using this I could access the service from my emulator, and I could still debug all Azure related stuff.

wcf windows service interaction

I have a windows service in which i host a wcf service.
What is the best approach to control the windows service via the wcf service? I already created the interfaces for the wcf service, but I have no idea how to interact with the windows service's classes and functions.
just to check that I'm understanding your problem correctly - you want to run a wcf service, so you create a windows service to host it, and you want your desktop client to be able to control the windows service (that's hosting the wcf service) by talking to the wcf service?
If that's the case, what is it that you're trying to do with the windows service? In some of the work I've done, I've set up the server such that there's the windows service hosting all the wcf services I want to run, and in order to interact with that windows service remotely (e.g. starting/stopping/restarting) I have another service running on the server (usually baked into the Amazon instance image so it's running on every new server that gets brought up) which my remote client can talk to instead. That way I have a means to trigger a service restart on all my servers without having to manually connect/remote desktop to each server. Of course, the second wcf service is secured by some means so it can't be exploited easily.
Is that the sort of thing you're looking to do?

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