Re: Web Services (Retouch)


"Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Pete Dashwood" <dashwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Judson McClendon" <judmc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I recently had use for accessing a web service from a Unisys A Series
mainframe. Unfortunately, as far as we can tell from the Unisys
documentation, it never occurred to Unisys that someone might want to
access a web service from a Unisys A Series mainframe, instead of on
one. We put the web service access in a PC based client, and transferred
the data to the mainframe using named pipes. It works, but the Unisys
documentation for named pipes is, to the extent that it even exists,
very incomplete and inaccurate. I spent many happy years programming
Burroughs/Unisys mainframes, and it saddens me to say that Unisys
does not seem to know how to adapt to the current environment.

Hi Judson (nice to see you back here... :-)).

From what you are describing, maybe there's a market there? If you have
experimented in this area and got stuff working, you might be able to
sell this knowledge on. Or package it so that people can easily use it?)

It is a certainty that Web Services will be part of the future (as more
and more people cotton on to the advantages of SOA, it is likely that
people currently bound by the mainframe will want to share in these
services (just as you did)).

Pete.

Hello Pete, (it's nice to get a chance to check back in. :-)

We are developing the developing the technology, are using it in a second
project now, and hope to use it in future applications. For the last
several months I've been studying and developing in Visual Studio 2005,
.NET 2.0, ASP.NET, etc. Working eyebrow deep in OO these days, but my
opinions regarding OO haven't changed much. :-) I'm impressed with how
easy it is to go from writing Windows applications in VS 2005 to writing
ASP.NET applications.

Ah, pleased to see you have finally come to the true path... :-)

VS 2005, ASP.NET ... makes you wonder what we could have done with COBOL if
it had had such an IDE... :-)

(Probably not much more than we did anyway, but we certainly could have done
it quicker...:-))

Generating Web Services, indeed, anything web related, in this environment
is so easy... I'm working on a very complex web site that also includes Web
Services, that in turn, wrap a COM component written in Fujitsu COBOL. The
whole thing works seamlessly, thanks to InteropServices and the DotNET
framework. I wouldn't have even considered the approach I have taken on this
if I hadn't had VS 2005.

"Give us the tools and we will finish the job..." W. S. Churchill

(or, as someone on a team I once managed remarked..."Give us the job and we
will finish the tools..." :-))

Pete.



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