Re: SOAP vs. REST

[Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks Jon I’ll check it out.

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:27 PM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I did that in 2012 Jim.  Bit out-of-date now from an IWS pers[ectoive but
> the RPG REST service does a lot more than Hello World.
>
> http://ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/rpg/web_service_rest/ <
> http://ibmsystemsmag.com/ibmi/developer/rpg/web_service_rest/>
>
>
> Jon Paris
>
> www.partner400.com
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> > On Jul 10, 2019, at 9:32 PM, Jim Oberholtzer <
> midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I would agree that we need new tooling and learning regarding the
> building
> > of the RESTful design.   I did some quick research today looking at
> Python
> > as a tool to build the web service and use whatever to call it using a
> JSON
> > payload.    That language make more sense to me than node for the tasks I
> > need to perform.   RPG will figure heavily into this software simply be
> > because it’s being built for i.
> >
> > There are literally 1000s of examples to weed through.  Here is the
> > dilemma,   Nearly every one of them assume Linux as the OS with a
> > smattering of Windows.   None of them seem to fit using Apache as the web
> > server and none of those examples will show the pluming needed to make it
> > work on IBM i.
> >
> > Until and unless those of us trying to use this new paradigm have
> somewhere
> > to start this type of shift is not going to happen in more traditional i
> > shops.   The learning curve becomes to steep to be economically
> effective.
> > So can someone show me the Hello world using i as the server?   I don’t
> > expect anyone to give away proprietary information but it would be nice
> to
> > see.
> >
> > IWS on the other hand does provide that example.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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