[Info-vax] WSDL and OpenVMS

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

tykeboy2003 at yahoo.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to interface to a J2EE application from an
> OpenVMS client?
> 
> I work with an OpenVMS system programming in DEC-PASCAL and need to
> get data from a J2EE system. I have the wsdl definition of the
> interface and I know how to send data to a remote socket and read some
> data back, but it is not at all clear to me (nor the developers of the
> J2EE system!) what the message formats are. Is it possible to work out
> what the message structures are from the wsdl?

Use SOAP integration tool, they usualy have a WSDL to "header"
conversion tool. I've used the gSOAP kit available here :
http://www.johndapps.com-a.googlepages.com/download
It has tools to read a WSDL defenition (using the URL to
"point" at the WSDL) and create .h header files and some
.c library funtctions to "use" the interface. It has docs
for integration with COBOL and I'd guess that it should
be possible to do something like that from Pascal also.

There is no socket programming involved, just normal
function calls.

Jan-Erik.