RE: Initiating SOAP Request from RPG Using Sockets

Andrew,

Honestly wasn't trying to be unprofessional, but this is a classic case
of a hammer and a screw and we need to make the RPG programmers aware
that there are screwdrivers in the world. 

As a J2EE engineer you know better than I (I'm the C# guy) that invoking
a web service w/Java is trivial. Perhaps the best solution is for you to
wrap the web service invoke inside a simple method that can be called
from their RPG program. I really think that this will accomplish the
task much faster than attempting to call the service via a hobbled
together string w/sockets.

Is it _possible_ to call a web service from RPG w/sockets? Obviously --
it's just text. However, the time spent getting all they layers to work
and debugging the resuting code can't possibly be worth the time and
effort required to do it, IMHO.

-Walden 


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