SOAP service consumption under OpenVMS

[Tim Lovern]

I'm trying to find supported libraries under OpenVMS for consuming web services, UDDI functions etc. Outside of JAVA. i.e. I'd like to enable applications written in C or Cobol, etc, to be able to use webservices.

Also, I am looking for libraries that are supported.

Thanks

[Richard J Maher]

Hi Tim,

I believe there is a product called gSOAP, not sure who's heading it up. Maybe someone can tell us a lot more about it?

Axis2 not for you either eh?

Regards Richard Maher

PS. How 'bout a XHR$ RTL that would let you do Ajax/REST from COBOL as well as stick the SOAP headers in?

[Martin Vorlaender]

Tim,

you can find all about gSOAP on OpenVMS at http://johndapps.blogspot.com/

HTH,
Martin

[Tim Lovern]

Thanks guys, I'll take a look at gSoap.

In an ideal world, I would make to do the UDDI lookup, another call to get the WSDL and then package up the data I need into the appropriate SOAP document, and then finally a call to do the webservice bit.

Hopefully I'd have the option of blocking until the call completes or servicing the completion via an AST.

[Ramondo]

Tim,

Non-OS specific gSOAP documentation can also be found here http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen/soap.html

I'm evaluating this right now and it seems to be (currently) the best option for a VMS client to call a web service, especially if you want to avoid Java. Be aware that the VMS version is not officially supported by HP.

I'd agree that this kind of functionality built into a VMS RTL would be the ideal solution, but I guess we may have to wait for that...