I've been slowly building up my web serivce and Flex UI. Over
time i noted that sometimes it takes a while for the WebService
object to finish loading. My UI blocks until the webservice has
finished loading, since everything the user intends to do will call
the WebService.
My current problem is that the WebService object downloads
the WSDL each time it connects to the newly started service.
Subsequent connects to the webservice are faster, but i can see
(through Fiddler) requests going to download the WSDL and it's
parts. I assume the subsequent connects are faster because the WSDL
is cached due to the browser file caching configuration.
So in the end the first time my user connects to the
webservice (after a fresh start of the webservice), it will take a
little while to download and process the WSDL. Then after that it
will be faster. We'd like to avoid long waits (not "long", talking
seconds here) for the user, we want the UI to be fast.
What i don't understand is that i've coded everything in my
Flex App to communicate with the webservice, so why does the
WebService object require itself to download a WSDL that i've
already build the web app for? It seems redundant to me, because
i've already tested that all my webservice calls will work with the
webservice in question.
Is there a way to avoid this? Maybe take the WSDL that i
build my web app for and include it with the application and have
the user load it locally; thus, avoiding the download of the WSDL.
Any help here would be very appreciated.
