RE: SOAP Requests

I just got done writing a piece of RPG code for a client that sends SOAP
requests to a Java web service and processes the responses in real-time for
an interactive green screen app. 

The one thing I tell people when they are first getting into web services is
that there is no "magic" happening.  It is only text being passed back and
forth.  The "hard" part comes in all of the text technologies involved (i.e.
SOAP, WSDL, XSLT, XML, etc).

In the end RPG is very capable of doing XML, there just isn't a lot of good
tools out there to accomplish the task.  On the other hand the Java and .NET
IDE's make it incredibly easy, but when something breaks a Java or .NET
developer may not know where to look for problems because they only
understand the façade of the whole thing and not the innerds.

There are pros and cons with both RPG and Java.  If you have RPG knowledge
then it would make sense to go with RPG, but if you have Java knowledge and
are familiar with the tooling WDSc has to offer (literally a ton) then you
could check that out.

Home many web services are you looking to implement?  

How big are the documents? 

HTH,
Aaron Bartell


-----Original Message-----
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On Behalf Of Mike Silvers
Sent: Friday, December 16, 2005 2:35 PM
To: RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: SOAP Requests

Has anyone created SOAP requests and processed the returns in RPG?  We have
a project where we will need to interact with a SOAP web service and I was
wondering if anyone has done this in RPG or if Java or C or something is
used more...
 
Thanks
 
Mike
 
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