Release 10.1A: OpenEdge Development:
Web Services

Developing the Axis client application

Once you have generated the client interface classes for the Web service, some typical tasks for developing a Java Axis client include:

Setting up the Web service objects
Using the sample PscObjectIDHandler and HandlerControlBlock classes
Setting up the PscObjectIDHandler objects
Connecting to a Web service
Running a non-persistent (external) procedure
Creating server-side context for a ProcObject (running a persistent procedure)
Running an internal procedure or user-defined function
Running an internal procedure that passes a TABLE parameter
Processing the data from a TABLE parameter
Running a procedure that passes a TABLE-HANDLE parameter
Using sample helper classes to manage TABLE-HANDLE parameters
Preparing the schema and data for input TABLE-HANDLE parameters
Processing the schema and data for output TABLE-HANDLE parameters
Releasing an object
Handling errors on the client
Notes: For more information on the concepts and procedures underlying these tasks, see Chapter 4 "General Client Programming Model for Progress 4GL Web Services" and Chapter 5, " Sample Code with SOAP Messages for Progress 4GL Web Services."

OpenEdge comes installed with complete sample client applications that access 4GL Web services. For more information, see Chapter 6, " Sample Progress 4GL Web Services and Client Applications."