Re: rpg & web services

I don't know, Alan - the original poster might be able to answer better - I just offered an alternative I was aware of.

But you've provided lots of tools to this community - this is probably another good one.

Thanks
Vern

On 2/3/2012 12:28 AM, Alan Campin wrote:

I have a socket client at www.think400.dk/downloads.htm that make it
just Open, read, write, close. If you were needing to send something
and then get something back it might work fine. Easy enough to write
socket server on the C# or VB side.

I basing this on you discussion of something going out and something
coming back. Are these occurring one after another or at different
times of the day. On a certain schedule?

On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Vern Hamberg<vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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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