This is a true statement. However, I have found that there are some things
that you cannot do using the integrated web services server that you can
only do when you create it manually through WDSC.
Of course, now that I try to remember what those things are, my mind goes
blank...but I know we ran into this issue when we tried to use that
integrated server. We ended up having to go back and create them the normal
way in order for them to function correctly.
This could have been something to do with posting multiple records to the
web service and/or retrieving multiple records with a single call to the
service...but I can't remember now what it was.
Anyway...the point is that the integrated web services server works, but use
it with the caution that if things end up not working like you thought they
should...that it's likely a problem with using that technique as opposed to
using WDSC.
-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Thierry Bernard
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 10:32 AM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: RPG as Web service
IBM now has an Integrated Web Services Server that makes it easy to turn a
RPG program to a Web service: you run a simple wizard and all the setup is
done for you.
It's available on V5R4 and 6.1. For V5R4 it's delivered as part of the
HTTP PTF group. Just make sure you are at the latest level (at least 13),
earlier versions had problems.
There's documentation at this site:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/iws/quickstart_server.html
We did a small prototype just to try it, in the end it's real easy. (One
gotcha is that you nedd *ALLOBJ so the wizard can create the server.) We
haven't looked at performance under volume yet, but so far we get very
similar response times as with stored procedures.
Have a nice day.
Thierry.
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