RE: Initiating SOAP Request from RPG Using Sockets

Thanks Walden, I do understand your point.  I agree that Java would be
the best tool for this choice.  

If I can confirm that a new JVM will not be invoked each time (trying
get a test for that setup now) then I will go back to the group and
present them with a solution whereby I'll write them a static class that
they can just call each time they need to.  I'm just not sure how the
AS/400 works in that case.  

Guess I just took your comments a little too close to heart.  I was as
an RPG programmer and still do it from time to time so I sympathise with
those poor guys over there who get beat down all the time for not
knowing Java but want to learn it and never get a chance to learn/use it
in a work setting.  I was just lucky to get the opportunity.  



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[mailto:java400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Walden H. Leverich
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 4:17 PM
To: Java Programming on and around the iSeries / AS400
Subject: 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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