RE: RPG as a Web Service Consumer

True, Alex's template should do what you need, with minor modifications.
My concern about it is that the envelope is hardcoded in the compile
time array. With the CGIDEV2 template process the envelope can be
modified without needing to recompile the program. You could even build
a generic service program that used different template sections
depending on what web service you were trying to access. I am not very
familiar with soap, so I don't know what areas of the envelope would
need to be changed to access different web services. But I always try to
avoid hard coding things if I can, it always comes back and bites you.

Joe Lee

>>> joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/23/2004 12:49:45 >>>
> From: Joe Lee
> 
> You might also look at using the CGIDEV2 templates for creating the
soap
> envelope. 

With Alex's template, I think I'm going to be able to do this without
too much trouble.  The beauty of the approach is that I use the free
TCP/IP sniffer ethereal that David mentioned to trace the
communication
from the WDSC generated client, and then I simply plug the pieces into
Alex's example.  I suspect this will be a relatively easy operation,
and
once it's done I may even be able to make it available to the outside
world.

Joe