SOAP

[pkahle at pobox.com (Peter Kahle)]

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/