RE: Replacing a Web Service with RPG...

What you need to do is setup a simple RPG CGI program in Apache and write
XML to standard out. For anybody wanting to consume your webservice you
would simply provide them the url that Apache is listening on(i.e.
http://myiseries.com/myrpgpgm)

Note that by default the above is port 80.  You could also have it listening
on a different port like 8080.

HTH,
Aaron Bartell


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Brad,

        But I still don't understand how to set up a 'Listening' web service
using either of the tools since they seem to require a URL (which I don't
have - All I will have is a port).

Rob,

        IBM seems willing to loosen it up - just not in a time frame I can
survive.


Thanks guys

Rick DuVall
Systems Manager
Dealer's Auto Auction of Okc
405 947-2886 Ext:143
rick@xxxxxxxxxx


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IBM hates it when they have to bend to support one of the other major
players.  But occasionally they do.  For instance, when Adobe reader came
out with a new release that started getting pickier on the format of a PDF
file IBM had to scramble like hell to get Infoprint Server to clean up their
format.  IBM was peeved, but they did it.  Is it something you feel that you
can push IBM on a little harder?

Rob Berendt
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Hi everybody,

                 I created a web service for a LARGE client to send soap
messages to and receive responses from.  Unfortunately, their soap/xml is
invalid according to IBM level 2 support.  That is, Was V6.0 won't parse it
successfully.  I have absolutely no control over the incoming message - most
of the others communicating in this way are using Micr$oft tools which have
no apparent problem with the invalid namespaces used in the soap/xml message
or are manually parsing it in some way.

                 It occurred to me that it might be possible to set up an
RPG program listening on an internal port and just suck the message in and
manually parse it,  produce a reply and send it.  I immediately thought
about Scott's HTTPAPI, but I was unsure if the httpapi had any facility for
doing that.
It seems that all of the api's require a URL for gets/posts and it isn't
obvious to me how to set that up or if this is even true.

                 I guess I could just write a socket program listening to an
internal port that I have a reverse proxy in apache pointing to... ?

                 If anybody has any suggestions/hints/pointers I would
appreciate them.

                 Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Rick DuVall
Systems Manager
Dealer's Auto Auction of Okc
405 947-2886 Ext:143
rick@xxxxxxxxxx


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