RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

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| From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
| [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Bartell, Aaron L.
| (TC)
| Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:17 PM
| To: 'RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries'
| Subject: RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer
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| But that sort of ignores a larger point: if I just want to send a simple
| text message to a service and get a message in response, and web
| services are so complicated that I can't do that easily in RPG, then web
| services are too complicated.  There needs to be a simpler interface for
| people who don't need all the bells and whistles of SOAP.



| I would
| rather just have
| one language and point of entry doing my XML communication.

My preference, also.  Anybody that thinks RPG is best-suited to doing the
small stuff, imo, is incorrect and probably has it backwards.

Perhaps this is a more-or-less (I dunno) suitable alternative to SOAP for
RPG:  http://www.xmlrpc.com/

Btw, for the folks that think XML is the be-all and end-all, here are two
sides from Tim Bray the (primary?) author of XML:
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/16/XML-Prog
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/03/24/XMLisOK

Yeah, XML is cool and hip tho!!