Need some major help with web service

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Hi All,

I am in need of some major help when it comes to web services…

Problem,

Our company produces a wsdl that contains employee data. I need to create a mechanism to consume that wsdl, create documents in my db and run and agent to update that data daily…

Anyone up for a challenge???

I can create a “Web Services Consumer” to ge the wsdl, I just have no clue from that point what to do with is…

What I am looking for…

Agent that grabs this consumer, creates documents from the returned data and have that agent run daily to update the data…

I appreciate anybody willing to lend me a hand…

Colin

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Subject: an approach

Colin,

Starting from versions 8.x Lotus Offers additional features for developing with web services. But i have used, the traditional way of consuming web services (Lotus Script with Active X Objects)

I had a similar case where i needed to consume a web service offered by a third party. I had access to the WSDL file. I used “SOAPUI” tool to generate stubs/operations out of the WSDL file, thereby checking out the various methods/functions that i can use out of the web services. Then i constructed the SOAP message to be sent/posted to the target server(The SOAP request format for any method/function in a web service can be interpreted using SOAPUI tool) and got the response back, converted it to xml & parsed it to get the required details.

For posting the SOAP request to the target server i used Microsoft.XMLHttp active x object and to load & parse the response xml, i used MicrosoftXML2.DomDocument object.

Overall it’s very simple if we are developing in windows environment and a bit messy when it comes to unix/linux where have to use Java since Active X objects are not supported in unix/linux platform.

HTH,

Jason

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Subject: Thanks for the info

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your input. I have managed to create an agent to consume the service I just can’t figure out what to do with it now. I have to do this via java and I am not a java programmer. Any suggestions on where I can get info to grab the values the wsdl returns and create notes docs from the return?

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Subject: here’s a sample

Sorry, I haven’t been on the forum for a few days. I know from experience that the whole webservice thing can be quite tricky to figure out.

Step 1 - create your webservice consumer by importing the wsdl

here is a snipit of code

					ws._queryRequest  request;

					request = new ws._queryRequest(); 

					accesscare.AcWebServicePortType AcWs;

					AcWs = new accesscare.AcWebServiceLocator().getAcWebServiceSOAP11port(); 

					AcWs.setCredentials(JA_SystemValue.getSystemValue(db,"AccessCare UserId"),JA_SystemValue.getSystemValue(db,"AccessCare Password"));

// JA_SystemValue - just a lookup routine

//set the parameters

				request.setApplication("APPName");

											request.setBusinessUnit("BusName");

				

request.setIsp(spName);

					request.setSpeedCode(doc.getItemValueString("RequestedSpeed"));

					request.setParamType( "T");

					request.setTnCkt(formatTN(doc.getItemValueString("CustPhoneNumber")));					

					request.setUser(getParmValue("User",formcontent));

//define the response

ws._queryResponse resp;

					try {

//get the response

					resp = AcWs.query(request);

						//get status code

// i'm not really sure how to check for faults - i haven't found the class definition anywhere yet for either lotusscript or java

						int stat = resp.getStatusCode();

						if (stat == 0) {		//successful

//get parameters from the response

							ws._queryResult result = resp.getQueryResult();

…etc.