[Openroad-users] Web Service calls from an OpenROAD client

Fri Sep 14 00:09:19 EST 2007

Jim,

That's very helpful thank you.

I've looked on the net at the PocketSOAP component and wondered whether
you would be willing to share a snippet or two of code so that I could
guage the level of effort required to do the same sort of thing.

At this point the customer wants a specification and cost which is
always tough for something new!

We have already had experience in wrapping COM controls in ActiveX in
VB6 so that bit should be ok.

Regards,

Paul

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[mailto:openroad-users-bounces at peerlessit.com] On Behalf Of Antill, Jim
Sent: 13 September 2007 09:25
To: International OpenROAD Users
Subject: Re: [Openroad-users] Web Service calls from an OpenROAD client

Paul,

A few of us wrote some OpenROAD code here a while ago to call a
webservice, passing over details of OR Objects in an XML document.

The transport mechanism was built using PocketSOAP wrapped in an ActiveX
control written using VB6. (The Web-Service is sent an XML document via
SOAP across HTTP). OpenROAD code was then written to take OpenROAD
objects and form an XML document from them which was then sent to the
webservice using the ActiveX control. When the ActiveX control received
a reply the XML document was taken and formed back into OpenROAD
objects. It works pretty well.

I'm not sure if OpenROAD has the ability to form XML documents itself
without the AppServer code being used. If not you could use MSXML to
build the XML (from info contained in the OR Objects) or just build the
XML as a StringObject. I think (though I'm not sure) that using MSXML
would also give you access to other important XML things such as an XSLT
transformation engine.

Just one of many approaches I'm sure. Please let me know if you want any
more info and I'll try to help.

Regards,
Jim

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	Hi!

	We are looking at a requirement from one of our customers to
interface from our OpenROAD app to another app via web services.

	Has anyone managed to invoke web services from an OpenROAD
client?!

	We use Oracle at the back end so we could do a post from the
database but that get's complicated to tie in with the users experience
at the front end!

	Any thoughts / advice / ideas welcomed!

	Cheers,

	Paul

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