Hi, If you also download the Web Services Development Toolkit (WSTK)from Alphaworks, you get a few examples that can help you get forward. It's another big download, though! Hope that helps, Sven! >From: "Ding, Chengmin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Invoking Apache soap web services from browser client / IBM W >SDE >Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 13:09:11 -0400 > >I tried to use WSDE to create a Browser Based Client but I could find the >instructions. >Could you tell me where to start? > >Thanks. > >-Chengmin > >-----Original Message----- >From: Sven Struyf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2001 9:41 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Invoking Apache soap web services from browser client / IBM >WSDE > > >Tom (and all), > >Take a look at the 'Web Services Development Environment' at the IBM >AlphaWorks website. It requires some (heavy) downloads, but it's really >worth it! Among other things, it will automatically generate WSDL files >from any java class or COM object, create BROWSER BASED CLIENT and deploy >your services to Websphere or Apache. > >I tested the toolkit with Apache and got the services running with both the >generated browser clients and a self-built Visual Basic client using the >low-level API in MS SOAP Toolkit 2.0. > >URL: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wsde > >Cheers, >Sven Struyf >System Engineer >EDS Belgium > > > >From: Tom Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >CC: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: Invoking Apache soap web services from browser client > >Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 08:56:59 -0400 > > > >At 09:14 AM 6/6/2001 +0530, Yashasree wrote: > > >Hi All > > > > > >Does anyone know how to invoke a web service deployed on Apache SOAP >from > > >a client browser. The samples that are available illustrate the usage >thru > >a java client only. How should the message be sent so as to make the >apache > > >soap router understand the request sent from a client browser. The >browser > >client that i am looking at does not use applets, but only pure HTML/XML. > > >Apache SOAP does not seem to give any API which we could use through >the > >browser. Even the Apache Javascript requires some kind of installation on > >the client side for it to work. > > > > > > >I'm not sure this qualifies as a FAQ, but here's an answer I sent to > >a previous message whose subject header was > > "How do I use my browser as a SOAP client?" > > > > > >If you can count on JScript (or VBScript) with MSXML, the approach in > > http://www.architag.com/events/GetFile.html?show=getWeather.htm > >seems to work fine calling on Apache SOAP, although I did set > > xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("SOAPAction", "''") > > xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; > >charset=iso-8859-1") > > > >If you're using Mozilla, look at http://www.mozilla.org/xmlextras/ and > >report back what you find because I haven't used that yet :-) > > > >As an alternative that "works" fine even with lesser browsers, you can > >(I did) construct a "PassAlong.jsp" such that > > PassAlong.jsp?router=XXXX&envelope=YYYYY > > (where XXXX is presumably something like > > http://localhost:8080/soap/servlet/rpcrouter > > and YYYY is the actual SOAP envelope, constructed in JavaScript > > or typed into a textarea) > >will construct the SOAP headers, open the connection, receive the result > >from the rpcrouter and pass it back to the client browser; better, at > >times, is to add a third parameter, xsl=ZZZZ, and use that to select > >an XSLT stylesheet for serverside processing of the SOAP result. I'm > >not sure how interesting this is, but the technique is not difficult. > >Does one of these address your problems? > > > >Tom Myers > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >_________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]