Re: Testing a web service

Thanks Scott,
Midrange.com and W3schools is always my first stops. I have gone through
those tutorials several different times trying to find out what I am
missing. What I am missing is how to execute the soap statement and how
to incorporate the wsdl file with the statement.  

My understanding of Xmlhttp is that it is just a method of doing and
http request with out reloading the page. It wasn't a good testing
method for what I needed. The outcome was my rpg program having the soap
statement as the input from the browser.

Thanks for the link to test the WSDL file. My http server is local so I
wasn't able to test it yet, but I will when I get everything setup
correctly. 


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Hi Griz,

If you haven't already done so, I think you might get a lot of benefit 
from stepping through the W3 schools tutorials on SOAP and WSDL.

http://www.w3schools.com/soap/default.asp
http://www.w3schools.com/wsdl/default.asp

Once you've written your WSDL document, try going to the following Web 
site:
http://soapclient.com/SoapTest.html

It'll parse your WSDL file, and you can then use it to see the request
and 
response SOAP messages that would be generated for it.

This'll give you a good idea of the relationship between the SOAP
messages 
and the WSDL document.

I don't know what XmlHttp is, so I can't help you there.

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Scott Klement  http://www.scottklement.com

On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Grizzly Malchow wrote:

> Ok,
>
> As near as I can figure I have a working WSDL in place. To be more
> precise, I was able to validate the file with WDSc WSDL editor. It
said
> the file is valid. I guess I'm not sure where to go from here. I'm not
> really sure how to reference the WSDL in the SOAP statement. Also I'm
> not entirely sure how I would go about posting the soap statement to
> execute my program.
>
> One test I did was to use JavaScript and XmlHttp to post the xml data
> including the soap statement to an RPG program. I don't think this is
> what I want though. Am I right in thinking that I want the SOAP
> statement to execute my program?
>
> Regards,
>
> Griz
>
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