Peter,
You can also just use the WinHttpRequest to send and receive raw SOAP.
I use this with a doc/literal style service I developed in Axis 1.1.
Here is some sample code:
Private Function SendRequest() As IXMLDOMNodeList
Dim httpReq As New WinHttpRequest
Dim responseDoc As New DOMDocument40
soapMessageBegin = "<?xml version=""1.0""
encoding=""utf-8""?><soap:Envelope
xmlns:soap=""http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"";
xmlns:xsi=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"";
xmlns:xsd=""http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"";><soap:Body><YourRequest
xmlns=""http://tempuri.org"";>"
soapMessageEnd = "</YourRequest></soap:Body></soap:Envelope>"
On Error GoTo ErrTrap
' make the call to service
httpReq.SetTimeouts 100000, 100000, 100000, 100000
httpReq.Open "POST", "http://"; & server & ":" & port &
"/yourserviceendpoint"
httpReq.SetRequestHeader "Content-Type", "text/xml"
httpReq.SetRequestHeader "SOAPAction", "http://"; & server & ":" &
port & "/yourserviceendpoint"
httpReq.Send soapMessageBegin & "<more xml>" & soapMessageEnd
' get a DOM of the response
responseDoc.loadXML httpReq.ResponseText
Set sendRequest =
responseDoc.getElementsByTagName("ns1:NameOfResponseElementYouExpect")
Set httpReq = Nothing
Set responseDoc = Nothing
Exit Function
ErrTrap:
MsgBox "Error occured."
End Function
Hope this helps--good luck,
pc
On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:21:03 +0200, Thiele, Michael (LDS)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter,
>
> we have some clients here running successfully Visual Basic 6.0 (with PocketSOAP
> and/or MS SOAP Toolkit 3.0) and Visual Basic .NET against our Axis 1.1 Server.
> We are using RPC/encoded.
>
> Try to build a Web Service with a simple methods first. E.g.:
>
> - public void getString()
>
> deploy the service to Axis, build a VB client, and test it.
>
> Expand you Web Service step by step public with
>
> - public int getInt()
> - public Integer getInteger()
> - public String getString()
> - public String getString (String in)
> - public String[] getStringArray()
> - public MyClass getClass()
> - public MyClass[] getClassArray()
> ...etc.
>
> to locate your interoperability problems.
>
> Beware of collections, exceptions, null-values in VB and some more pitfalls.
>
> HTH
>
> Best regards
>
> Michael Thiele
> Senior Consultant
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> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: peter maas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 8. September 2004 09:25
> An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Betreff: Axis webservices and Visual Basic
>
> Hi all,
>
> we are experimenting with accessing our Axis based webservices with a
> Visual Basic client. Alltough we have manage to use the VB client on
> non-axis webservices it doesn't work with any of the axis webservices.
>
> We have tried a some of the different (rpc/document/wrapped)* *encoding
> styles, but this doesn't seem to change anything.
>
> anyone got any pointers to documentation related to what the cause of
> this problem might be?
>
> regards,
>
> Peter Maas
> Application Architect / Streaming
>
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