SOAP may not be obsolete was Re: Creating a Web Service with COBOL...

On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:30:04 +1200, "Pete Dashwood"
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"softWare design" <sabraham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hello,

Just read the following articles and I thought they were interesting,
however, I am wondering if I can create a Web Service by simply
using the Windows APIs (SDK development kit) ? I know that the
SOAP protocol uses the HTTP/HTTPS over the internet to support
interoperable machine to machine interaction. So, is it possible to
use the listed below functions to send the needed XML messages
between clients and servers ?

Your links didn't work for me, but I have a fair idea what you're talking
about...


Thanks for any comments....

HttpOpenRequest()

HttpSendRequestEx()

http://www.cobolportal.com/files/egilityedge.pdf

http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=7730&amp;page=

http://www.adtmag.com/article.aspx?id=9472&amp;page=

Yes, it is. But there are much easier ways of accessing Web Services and
building them.

Have a look at the thread: "Web Services and COBOL (fairly long post..." ,
starting with the original post dated 27th May, 2007. It explains the SOAP
Toolkit scenario and has sample code for both Fujitsu NetCOBOL and MF
NetExpress. For BUILDING Web Services you can use the SOAP Toolkit to
generate WSDL.

I have connected to SOAP services using the Toolkit, and the "manual" method
(painstakingly building all the XML and WSDL myself, some years ago to
access a banking service on a mainframe, remotely over the Internet from a
PC in a different country.)

The Toolkit is better.

You should also bear in mind that the SOAP protocol is already obsolete and
will no longer be supported by MS after next year. It is being replaced by
DotNet Web Services (which provide richer facilities and error checking than
SOAP does...)

Of course .NET will work well on all of the Unix / Linux systems as
well as mainframes from any vendor left. Maybe SOAP is out for
Microsoft but I suspect other vendors may view things differently as
might the Linux enthusiasts.


Pete.


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