Re: SOAP, WSIT, I'm LOST, sort of...

Jeffrey H. Coffield wrote:
Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
HI.
Currently running VMS system with :

DS20/500, 2 CPU
VMS 7.3-2
TCPIP 5.4 ECO 2
OSU web server 3.6 and 3.8 (in three running copies)

Now I've been asked to evaluate "WEB Services"
as a new "interface" to this system. I have checked
the WSIT and SOAP pages at HP. As far as I can see,
there are a few show stoppers as the system is
configured today. I need (at least one) ODS-5 disk
and also a current JAVA install for WSIT. But, according
to the development manual for WSIT, there are (at least one)
some tools (OBJ2IDL.EXE) that only runs on VMS I64.
That's a major problem, of course.

Anyway, are there anyone who actualy have tried/used
these tools? And any other thought about this WEB Services
"thing" are also welcome.

I'm currenly using the simple DCL scripting of the OSU
server (which works just OK) to produce dynamic page
contents. The WEB services is ment to be a data-transfer
interface, sort of not-having-to-use-FTP. I guess that one
also cat get a more "on-line" interface where apps can
exchange status info over the same connection. Now, not
realy sure what I'm talking about here... :-) :-)


Jan-Erik.

I use SOAP to communicate with several other companies that I don't know (and don't really care) what O/S, etc they use. It works very well for me. Tools? Practically none. All SOAP is, as far as I can see, is some standardized XML which I generate using an XML template from an OpenVMS Basic program calling CURL to do the actual transmission. The last one I did, took me about 3 hours from receiving the SOAP spec to actually exchanging data. Could some tools reduce that programming time? Maybe if I spent a month or so sorting out all the options, learning how they are supposed to be used, Googling out arcane questions that everyone asks and no one answers.

CURL is one of the tools that I have found that is really worth learning what the options can really do for you.

Jeff Coffield

Hi.
Sound interesting. cURL is like a file transfer tool,
as far as I know. In my case, my server will mostly
*receive* data (datafiles with fixed format structured
records). That is, as the receiving side of an "WEB Service"
transaction.

Jan-Erik.
.

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