RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Scott Klement
> 
> 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/

<chuckling>

Half of the neat stuff I do is originally from one of your tutorials or
one of Carsten's examples, Scott.  If it wasn't for looking at your
code, I'd be afraid to even attempt this stuff.  And I'll play with the
HTTPAPI, but it's still not clear to me how to format the request to
access the web service.  It seems there's a little bit more to it than
just hitting the URL.

Of course, the more I dig into it, the more I find that the whole web
services "standard" is nearly as ugly as the EJB stuff.  WSDL is as
over-engineered as most everything else in J2EE, and the complexities of
SOAP and XML are not insignificant.  I was hoping for a relatively
lightweight interface, but it's not to be.

I'm going to have to create a WS-Lite one of these days, but for now I
just want to figure out the protocol.

Joe