Re: web services IWS tutorial?

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes.  These 3 articles were the ones that finally got me up and 
running.  Add on your other specific responses to issues that were 
giving me fits and I have said, and will say again, Nadir Amra's work 
and his interest kept me on track and moving forward.  I appreciate what 
you have done.

I am embarrassed to admit what I found missing, but here goes.  I am an 
RPG programmer and I know some HTML, .css, and JavaScript. When it comes 
to Apache, I know how to spell Apache.  That's it.

Any questions or explanations that include technical terms from the 
Apache world are going to sail past me.  For instance, at the moment I 
am fighting with the difference between forward proxy and reverse proxy 
and how it applies to not requiring a user to know or care what port 
number s/he needs to reach a web service. Average RPG programmers are 
not going to understand the IWS Help section on that issue.  Another 
example that caused a complete delete & repeat was: if QWSERVICE does 
not have a password other than *none, something else needs to happen.

We're talking the simple stuff here, but once one knows the answers to 
the simple stuff then the Wizard is no longer needed, right?  Also, why 
do I need to learn about SOAP as a prerequisite to using REST?

I mentioned 4 or 5 segments; I said that because of your 3-part series.  
I realized that at my level of understanding I needed 1 or 2 extra 
segments that are even more simplistic than your articles.

In other words, I am not taking away from what you wrote; I am OK about 
my not being as bright as your target audience for the IWS Wizard.  I 
also believe there are a lot of other average RPG programmers out there 
who have eye-balled the web services solution and needlessly shy away.  
They need web services in their shops.  They need to be reached.


On 12/12/2018 11:03 PM, Nadir Amra wrote:
> Hi Booth,
>
> I developed a 3-part series of articles, just wondering if you had looked
> at them and if so was wondering what is missing? ...