SOAP

[Howard]

yes, they did give me a wsdl.xml file.  where, supposedly, i'm
only to change 4 parameters.  i'm not really clear on where i
should be starting.

please advise.



--- Peter Kahle <pkahle at pobox.com> wrote:

> Howard wrote:
> > --- Howard <antietorrey at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> --- Tom Metro <tm at vl.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>     
> >>>> We're trying to incorporate our unix boxes onto the
> >>>>         
> >>> companies
> >>>       
> >>>> paging system via the web.
> >>>>
> >>>> I've been given the code from the people responsible and,
> >>>>         
> >>> only
> >>>       
> >>>> need to change 3-4 fields within this code.  
> >>>>
> >>>> Now, the question, where should this code reside on the
> >>>>         
> >> unix
> >>     
> >>>> boxes?  and, how can i run it via a sample url that was
> >>>>         
> >>> given?  
> >>>
> >>> Could you provide some more background on what you are
> >>>       
> >> trying
> >>     
> >>> to do?
> >>>
> >>> When you say, "incorporate our unix boxes onto the
> companies
> >>> paging system...," what is the objective? To allow users
> >>> inside your 
> >>> company to initiate pages via email? To have monitoring
> >>>       
> >> tools
> >>     
> >>> running on 
> >>> the UNIX boxes trigger pages when alarm conditions occur?
> >>>       
> >> Mainly for a monitoring tool.  For instance, if the system
> >> goes
> >> down it will trigger a page to various pagers/users.  And,
> if
> >> necessary, paging.  But, this will not be a priority.
> >>     
> >>> I presume from the "SOAP" subject that the web service
> >>> provided by the 
> >>> paging company uses a SOAP interface?
> >>>
> >>> My guess is that the things you want to accomplish will
> >>> involve getting 
> >>> the sample code to operate as a command line tool for
> >>> initiating a page, 
> >>> and then depending on what you want to trigger the pages,
> >>> configuring 
> >>> the appropriate software to call upon the command line
> tool.
> >>>       
> >> This is my guess as well.  But, I'm not sure where to
> start,
> >> given they gave us the .xml code.
> >>     
> If they gave you XML, odds are what they gave you is WSDL,
> descriptors 
> for the services. If that's the case, it's a matter of picking
> your 
> poison as far as implementation language. On my debian system,
> I've got 
> a package called libsoap-lite-perl[1] which has a program
> called 
> stubmaker which generates perl code that can call a web
> service from the 
> WSDL, and python-zsi[2] which includes wsdl2py, which does the
> same 
> thing for python.
> 
> There's also a ruby package, or maybe even built into ruby
> (1.8), a mono 
> (.NET) one, plus packages for Common Lisp, Ada, C/GLib/GTK,
> and I'm sure 
> plenty of others.
> 
> That should get you started.
> 
> P
> 
> [1] AKA Soap::Lite perl module, http://soaplite.com/
> [2] http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/
> 


Peace,

Antoinette

Don't be afraid that your life will end,
be afraid that it will never begin.
~anonymous~

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