I can't really offer any demo code, exactly, though you might find some
within this link:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/iws/index.html
This link describes the Integrated Web Services for i product, which
became available at V5R4. Here's a snip from the FAQ:
What is integrated Web services for i5/OS?
The integrated Web services for i5/OS support is a term to describe the
following technologies that are part of i5/OS:
1. The integrated Web services server
2. The integrated Web services client for ILE
The integrated Web services server is a fully functional Web services
server in which ILE-based program objects can be deployed as Web
services.
The integrated Web services client for ILE allows ILE-based applications
to act as Web service clients by generating C or C++ stubs that can be
invoked by an ILE program. The stubs remove the complexity of the Web
service protocol by taking care of serializing and deserializing Web
service requests and responses.
I think WDSC 7.0 should work fine at V5R4, to support your development
of web services wrappers. I do not recommend WDSC 6 at all. RBD can be
used to generate web services, but if that is the only use you made of
RBDe70, that tooling is probably overkill... If EGL is part of your
migration strategy, then you really should consider upgrading to
Rdi-SOA, which contains the EGL RUI tooling, and start from there.
Hth,
-Eric DeLong
-----Original Message-----
From: wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Flagler, Richard E., Jr (Rick)
Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 10:02 AM
To: WDSCI-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [WDSCI-L] RPG Web Service Example
Can anyone suggest a source for locating a simple all-inclusive example
and code for a very simple web service with coding examples for both
ends?
We wish to create a small example to "prove" to management that this can
be an approach for moving data between our Power i DB2 box and non-IBM
SAP host system. Another manufacturing site has an Oracle example linked
to SAP with BPEL, so we know the concept works, but a review of that
application hasn't been very helpful for us System i folks. The are some
writings from prominent System i people that talk about using iNav and
others that specify WDSc or even EGL.
We have V5R4 and iNav. We also have V6 and V7 of WDSc. I think I also
have one copy of V7 RDB. Not sure where to start and whether ONE of
these tools is the best place to start. Finally, do ANY of these tools
require WAS Server to run the web service or does OS/400 have something
that simply lets you enable an RPG program to be sender/receiver for the
service. Any direction would be appreciated.
Thank you.
Rick
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