Verifying the Metadata Service Installation
Just like everyone else looking at IBF as an emerging technology, I am also delighted at the release of Information Bridge Framework 1.0. Hearty congratulations to the IBF team for delivering as promised!!
Today, I set about the task of downloading & installing IBF1.0. If you have a pre-release version, uninstall it before proceeding with the new installation.
The Installation guide is more comprehensive and is definitely an improvement over the previous one that came bundled with the pre-release. So first I had the Metadata service installed following the steps given in the document "Information Bridge Framework Installation and Deployment Guide".
After completing the Installation steps for the Metadata service, I came to a section titled "Verification and Testing of the Metadata Service", Pg 25. This section states that to verify the installation, enter the location of the Metadata service and if the installation has succeeded, we should see the browser display a page titled "Runtime Error". Given below is the error page which serves as an indication that the Metadata service installation was successful.
If you are one of those who would have liked to see an error free page to indicate the success of the IBF service, read on to find out how this could be done.
First, find out the exact cause of the error, by setting customErrors property to ?RemoteOnly? in Web.config file present in the application root directory, as shown below.
<system.web>
<customErrors mode="RemoteOnly"/>
</system.web>
Save the file, do a refresh, to view the cause of the error. Given below is the web page that provides additional information related to the "Runtime Error".
To resolve this error, comment the entry "<remove name="Documentation"/>" in the Web.config file.
<webServices>
<protocols>
<!-- <remove name="Documentation"/> -->
</protocols>
<webServices>
With this modification in place, I performed a refresh on the IBF Read Service URL & was able to view an error-free page
