Hi Mike, This is what I understood from last years DB2 conference in Orlando:
Yes, web services use SOAP and XML over http. The new SOAP server in UniVerse 10.2 should offer both and expose it as a standard web service. It even supports WSDL, a language to describe a web service to a client program similar to a dictionary describing the structure of a data file. E. g. Visual Studio can use this information and generate a nice view of all the methods that the web service offers and their parameters. So it will be easy to access UniVerse from a .NET application across the internet. On the backend, standard UniBasic subroutines are called. Even complex multiattributed/multivalued parameters are possible and can be mapped to XML structures, so that the client (e.g. Java or .NET) can handle complex data sets returned from a UniBasic subroutine natively. There will be a graphical tool to set up the definitions and mappings for the web service. SQL Server 2005 supports .NET programs as stored procedures, so this one should also be able to act as a client. It can store the multivalued data retrieved from a UniVerse system natively in XML format. The new SOAP server is highly anticipated by us. Forget about ODBC, SQL, UniObjects and all the other normalized or non standard solutions using proprietary communication protocols. Klaus -----Urspr|ngliche Nachricht----- Von: Mike Dallaire [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 20:19 An: [email protected] Betreff: [U2] UniVerse 10.2 It has been mentioned that with the release of version 10.2 there will be a web services development tool available in UniVerse. To clarify, would that be the much anticipated SOAP server? Thanks, Mike Mike Dallaire Programmer IBM Certified Solutions Expert - U2 UniVerse V9.6 Administrator for Unix and Windows Mortgage Builder Software Inc. (248) 304-0600 x 103 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
