Re: Socket Server Application Approach -- RPG400-L

Gerald,

I guess I don't understand, a web service is defined by the W3C as "a
software system designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine
interaction over a network."

There's no requirement that a web service has to be publicly
available, in fact I'd guess a majority all internal to a company.

It seems to me that you're creating a web service. I'm just surprised
that you've chosen do using raw sockets.

Charles

On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:37 PM, <GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Charles,

Writing the socket routines to me is a good lesson in the nuts and bolts
of tcp communications. Scott's tutorial is a tremendous resource and I'm
glad I've had the opportunity to learn from each of his examples. Those
programs (the socket listener and socket instances) are are already coded
and in place. I got all of that done yesterday. Today I'm working on
resolving some of the details...

Regarding web services, that is something I don't have a lot of experience
with (actually none), although I do hope to get there one day.
Troubleshooting and debugging web services could be a bigger problem and
I'm already comfortable with most of the socket stuff so pulling a data
string into an ILE application to do it's thing, to me, seemed to be the
most straight forward approach.

The asp.net application is being written by my network manager and this
removes the burden of my having to do the CGI/CGIDEV portion of the
application. At that point the https connection has already been
established so that is also one less thing for me to be concerned about.
Our i isn't exposed to the internet and the web application will be in the
DMZ.

We're in the early stages of talking about a patient portal application
and perhaps that would be a good use of web services. Since that is still
in the future, I hope to have the time to learn about web services and how
to effectively incorporate them in such a project.

But as always, thanks for the input.

Regards, Jerry

Gerald Kern - MIS Project Leader
Lotus Notes/Domino Administrator
IBM Certified RPG IV Developer
The Toledo Clinic, Inc.
4235 Secor Road
Toledo, OH 43623-4299
Phone 419-479-5535
gkern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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