Re: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

I've got an open-source HTTP service program that makes it possible to do
HTTP requests from your RPG programs.  It comes with a few simple sample
programs as demonstrations...

http://www.scottklement.com/httpapi/


On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Joe Pluta wrote:

> I'm cross posting this in a few places, so if you see multiple copies of
> this, please forgive me.  This is a rather unusual request in that in
> researching the net (including archives, Google, mail scans, you name
> it) I haven't found ANYTHING about the subject anywhere.  Since it
> crosses several domains, I thought I'd give it a shot in multiple
> places.
>
> My question is this: has anybody tried calling a web service directly
> from RPG?  I can't believe it's that difficult; it's simply a sockets
> communication.  But I can find no examples anywhere.  I suppose I can
> reverse engineer the Java client WDSC generated for me, but that seems
> like overkill (especially after I looked at the code <shudder>).
>
> It's not like it's crucial.  I can always call a Java program to do the
> work.  But we all know the performance downsides of invoking Java from
> RPG; it would be nice to be able to do it directly from RPG.
>
> What do you all think?
>