Re: [WEB400] XML Documents

[Justin Houchin <jhouchin9@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for the infomation David!
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@plumcreek.com>
To: <web400@midrange.com>
Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 3:25 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] XML Documents


> Justin,
>
> I don't know much about UPS' XML exchange formats, but they are
> a member of Rosetta net. That is a group of companies that built
> some exchange standards. I would not be surprised if SOAP is part
> of the equation. From what I have seen of Rosetta's standards, they
> use something called a Partner Interface Process (PIP), which documents
>
> the format of information exchanged between member companies.
> You might check out www.rosetta.org.
>
> Walden mentioned SOAP, overall, SOAP is just defines a way of calling
> a program on another system using a transport like HTTP, or SMTP.
> SOAP defines the parameters and program to call. A good bet for
> SOAP on the iSeries is the Apache Axis project. I have not used Axis on
>
> the iSeries, but I have used its predecessor Apache SOAP. I do have a
> project planned that will likely use Axis, so I will know whether it
> will work
> on the iSeries in a few weeks.
>
> As far as creating XML documents goes, you can use the IFS file APIs or
>
> some sort of XML parser. The iSeries-toolkit contains a UNIX module
> that makes using those APIs pretty easy. I like JDOM the best for
> parsing
> in Java and can give you an example if you get that far.
>
> David Morris
>
>
> > Can anyone point me in the right direction for creating XML
> Documents.
> > I have to create an XML document, send it to ups's server, it will
> > calculate the shipping cost, receive the data back on my 400 and
> write
> > the data back to the browser via CGI. I have no clue where to start!
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Justin Houchin
>
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