Hi,
This is going to be a very vague question as I really don't know where to begin, but I hope that someone can give me some direction. I am reasonably experienced in writing DXL code but this may be a step too far for me. I am trying to see if my DXL can access a web service that has been written as an interface into another piece of software on our network. It has been written as a SOAP web service. There are a number of services created to get data from the software and the people who have written this web service say that I might need to use WSDL (Web Service Definition Language to facilitate the use of these web services by third party consuming systems. I am not sure of how to go about coding this. I have searched many of the forum posts which talk about OLE and OSLC, either of which I can see might work. Any direction on which is best to use would be good and a starting point for accessing the services and how these are coded. Any help would be really appreciated. Regards Pippa Pippa1 - Mon Aug 01 05:10:31 EDT 2016 |
Re: Accessing a Web Service A wild guess here, if the WSDL can use oleautomation -- you might be in luck -- if not then you are leading a new wave. |
Re: Accessing a Web Service Instead of OLE Automation you should think about making a cmdline interface for your webservice in any language you like. Once you got that you can easily start the cmdline scripts from DXL. There are ways of accessing HTTP in DXL using OLE Automation and even using the native IPC but coding a complete SOAP library in DXL is kind of overkill, don't you think :-) Hope that helps, regards, Mathias P.S: In java using a SOAP Web Service is a breeze using the mighty Axis library. Other languages have similar libraries. |