Re: Webservices

Thanks Scott.

It looks like IWS is what I am looking for, but I am encountering a problem. All the necessary LPPs/features are installed and the most current PTFs installed. I followed the steps in your article to try and recreate your example. After I am in STRQSH, I try the wsdl2rpg.sh and it comes back telling me that it is not found. I also tried wsdl2ws.sh with the same error. Is there some CLASSPATH or something I need to set? I am sure it is something simple, but I am a novice when it comes to QSH.

-----Original Message----- From: Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 2:46 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Webservices

Hi Robert,

You might try IBM's IWS (Integrated Web Services) tools. I don't know
if I think it's easier than HTTPAPI (I might be biased). But it's
certainly a very different approach, and so might be more to your liking.

I wrote an article about it, here:
http://www.systeminetwork.com/article/rpg-programming/consume-web-services-with-ibms-iws-66209

Here's IBM's web site for it:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/i/software/iws


On 11/29/2011 11:07 AM, Robert J. Mullis wrote:

With the new opcodes XML-INTO and XML-SAX, it made processing XML documents much easier. Has there been any new advances on the iSeries to make processing of data to and from webservices easier? I have a couple of small programs that create a simple SOAP document in a character string and send it via Scott Klement’s HTTP API’s. This has worked fine for quite awhile. Now I am being asked to look at using a new webservice that is fairly complex in the data that is sent and received. Needless to say, creating the SOAP document to send in a RPG program is complex and prone to a lot of points of failure, not to mention the document returned.

Are there any tools or utilities on the iSeries that make the handling of webservices simplier? I would prefer to have my RPG program simply handle the outgoing and incoming data from the webservice without having to be concerned within my program about the format of the webservice.

Thanks,
Robert J. Mullis
Wellington-Royce Corporation
(770) 395-7400 x1023