[Xplanner-devel] XPlanner SOAP services now in CVS

[Steve B. <st...@ba...>]

Hello,

The head version of the XPlanner CVS repository has an initial version
of a SOAP-based interface for accessing XPlanner data and
functionality. After installing XPlanner, you can access SOAP services
at the following URLs.

http://yourhost.com:port/xplanner/soap/XPlannerView
http://yourhost.com:port/xplanner/soap/XPlannerEdit
http://yourhost.com:port/xplanner/soap/XPlannerAdmin

These three SOAP services provide view-only, update, and administrative
access. They are all authenticated services so you must use a user ID and
password to access them. The same authentication you use for XPlanner web
access should work for these services.

I'm using the Apache Axis library as the SOAP framework. To access the
Web Service Description Language (WSDL) specification for each service
you can simply invoke it with "?wsdl" appended to the URL. For example,

http://yourhost.com/xplanner/soap/XPlannerView?wsdl

You can also take a look at com.technoetic.xplanner.soap.XPlanner to
see the Java interface on the server side. (This one interface is used
for all three services. The only difference are the security restrictions
that specify which methods are available to which services.)

I've accessed the services from Java and from Perl (using SOAP::Lite).
I'm working on some examples for SOAP::Lite since it requires some
rather obscure configuration to get it to work with Axis. If you are a
Perl hacker and want my current rough examples to get started, let me
know and I'll email them to you.

Regards,

Steve