Re: Webservices

["Robert J. Mullis" <robertmullis99@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Scott.

It looks like IWS is what I am looking for, but I am encountering a problem. 
All the necessary LPPs/features are installed and the most current PTFs 
installed.  I followed the steps in your article to try and recreate your 
example.  After I am in STRQSH, I try the wsdl2rpg.sh and it comes back 
telling me that it is not found.  I also tried wsdl2ws.sh with the same 
error.  Is there some CLASSPATH or something I need to set?  I am sure it is 
something simple, but I am a novice when it comes to QSH.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Scott Klement
Sent: Tuesday, November 29, 2011 2:46 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: Webservices

Hi Robert,

You might try IBM's IWS (Integrated Web Services) tools.  I don't know
if I think it's easier than HTTPAPI (I might be biased).  But it's
certainly a very different approach, and so might be more to your liking.

I wrote an article about it, here:
http://www.systeminetwork.com/article/rpg-programming/consume-web-services-with-ibms-iws-66209

Here's IBM's web site for it:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/i/software/iws


On 11/29/2011 11:07 AM, Robert J. Mullis wrote:
> With the new opcodes XML-INTO and XML-SAX, it made processing XML 
> documents much easier.  Has there been any new advances on the iSeries to 
> make processing of data to and from webservices easier?  I have a couple 
> of small programs that create a simple SOAP document in a character string 
> and send it via Scott Klement’s HTTP API’s.  This has worked fine for 
> quite awhile.  Now I am being asked to look at using a new webservice that 
> is fairly complex in the data that is sent and received.  Needless to say, 
> creating the SOAP document to send in a RPG program is complex and prone 
> to a lot of points of failure, not to mention the document returned.
>
> Are there any tools or utilities on the iSeries that make the handling of 
> webservices simplier?  I would prefer to have my RPG program simply handle 
> the outgoing and incoming data from the webservice without having to be 
> concerned within my program about the format of the webservice.
>
> Thanks,
> Robert J. Mullis
> Wellington-Royce Corporation
> (770) 395-7400 x1023