Re: rpg & web services

[Vern Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alan

I think this is both ways - it gives you a way to publish your RPG 
programs as a web service, and the WSDL2RPG bit goes the other way for 
consuming existing services.

That's about my level of knowledge - I've seen presentations on it by 
IBM, and it does seem like an option for the one starting out, 
especially. Who may not know how to do sockets stuff.

I'd say take a look more at the site - there's overview stuff and all 
that there, which may help.

Vern

On 2/2/2012 5:48 PM, Alan Campin wrote:
> Just curious. Is this something where there already exists a .net web
> service or something that you are going to develop. I just wonder if
> it would make more sense to use a simple socket server to have the
> application send you data and you return a result or vis versa.
>
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Vern Hamberg<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > IBM has come out with Integrated Web Services - look at
> > http://www.ibm.com/systems/i/software/iws/
> >
> > It is not going to work for complicated stuff, I think, but it can get
> > you going. There is also on that page a WSDL2RPG tool mentioned - this
> > helps - I'm not sure how much it does to get you going, but it used to
> > have stubs to call that gave you access to a web service.
> >
> > Worth a look - as I say, it's a beginning, not necessarily what really
> > experienced folks might use.
> >
> > HTH
> > Vern
> >
> > On 2/2/2012 1:25 PM, wjohnson@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > can anyone give me a direction to check for invoking a web service from an
> > > rpg program to send data to a .net platform ....thanks
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