Timothy - My earlier suggestion was to look at the web service client example in the JZOS cookbook. In that example, we show how to use the free/open source "Apache Axis2" web services toolkit, which removes most of the coding burden. Is that the kind of "middleware" you mean?
The cookbook includes an example Eclipse project with sample code to call a SOAP web service from a batch (Java) job, and is available from the JZOS alphaworks site: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Timothy Sipples <timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com > wrote: > Yes, you could use Java and invoke Java from COBOL. > > But before everyone gets carried away with the idea that that's the "one, > best" option... I'm not so sure. Consider that Web Services are a > reasonably fast moving target and a family of specifications, and it's > probably not a good idea to go into the private business of having to > maintain your own Web Services implementation, especially as a one-off. (Is > this requirement likely to come up again? And again?) If you can omit > needless coding, you can avoid committing to burdensome maintenance. > > Hence my opening question about what middleware the original poster has > already. The answer very well might be, "Use that." > > Now, there is JAX-WS support in Java 6, and presumably it'll be maintained > and enhanced in reasonably timely fashion as Java evolves. That's good -- > great, even. Is JAX-WS enough? "It depends." There are a lot of WS-* > standards that aren't in Java Standard Edition (JSE). > > There are also security and performance considerations to think about (at > least). "It depends" again. > > - - - - - > Timothy Sipples > IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect > Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific > E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
