Exactly. And as my example showed, you don't even need a SOAP envelope. You just need an XML document. Axis2 will automatically wrap it in a SOAP envelope if needed (via it 'REST' support)
alex 2009/7/17 Håkon Sagehaug <[email protected]> > Hi > > Thanks for the replay, so my problem is really that to make a good method > for creating a valid soap message for any given web service operation on > the > fly. So just wondered about that. Maybe using Pyhton or other interpreter > language is good. > > cheers, Håkon > > 2009/7/16 Alex Boisvert <[email protected]> > > > All processes deployed on Ode (via Axis2) are exposed through simple > > XML/HTTP interface. > > > > You can easily call web services and dynamically create XML message is > just > > a few lines of Java code... > > > > // assuming Apache Commons httpclient 3.1 > > import org.apache.commons.httpclient.* > > import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.* > > ... > > ... > > PostMethod post = new PostMethod(" > > http://localhost:8080/ode/processes/HelloWorld";); > > post.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "text/xml; charset=utf-8"); > > post.setRequestBody("<Hello xmlns="http://example.com/HelloWorld > > ">hello!</Hello>"); > > int code = (new HttpClient()).executeMethod(post); > > if (code == 200) { > > System.out.println(post.getResponseBodyAsString) > > } else { > > System.err.println("Bad response code: "+code); > > } > > > > Armed with a good HTTP/REST library and a decent language (Groovy, Scala, > > ...) you can do a lot of damage with even fewer lines of code. > > > > Big frameworks are optional. > > > > alex > > > > 2009/7/16 Håkon Sagehaug <[email protected]> > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > In my project we'll have a work flow execution module that can execute > > > different work flows defined in different work flow languages. This > > > module/service will take the input for the work flow, either the actual > > > representation of the work flow or maybe the address, if deployed as a > > web > > > service like BPEL in ode. > > > > > > So my question is, is it possible to call a bpel work flow deployed > with > > > ODE > > > by other means then the wsdl interface, by some API where you give the > > > adress,name and input. If not does anyone know about a "easy" way to > > create > > > the soap messages on the fly that is needed to create a generic soap > > > message > > > for calling a web service. I'v lookeed some in the > org.apache.ode.axis2 > > > package, but could not find anything useful. > > > > > > Any tips or hits? > > > > > > cheers, Håkon > > > > > > -- > > > Håkon Sagehaug, Scientific Programmer > > > Parallab, Bergen Center for Computational Science (BCCS) > > > UNIFOB AS (University of Bergen Research Company) > > > > > > > > > -- > Håkon Sagehaug, Scientific Programmer > Parallab, Bergen Center for Computational Science (BCCS) > UNIFOB AS (University of Bergen Research Company) >
