Vince Teachout wrote on 2016-03-21:
On 3/21/2016 10:06 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: My guess is that you need to deal with their web service? "a SOAP solution which will send claim information out to a site"
They will post back to your web service as well? "and return
responses."
Correct.
You have a Web presence already. "We have a separate web server, on a linux box, that can access the MS machine."
Just put up a web service on that web server to push to them as needed as well as wrote the reply you get back from them.
That was my understanding, and my concern is I don't have any tools to write a web service for a Linux box. (Unless a web-service is something that's agnostic, and I can write it on my vfp machine, and then have it run on the LAMP machine?)
If I'm understanding Ted's response correctly, though, I can do both send and receive from a VFP program on the MS server, which would be perfect for me. Thanks!
Vince,
VFP is not multi-threaded, don't expect it to be a service that responds to multiple clients. Something needs to instantiate multiple instances of VFP to do that. (VFP being an ISAPI control in IIS. VFP COM in a C# WCF project.)
There are multiple ways to do SOAP. I understand Rick Strahl has created a good framework for this. I used the tools provided with VFP to build an internal project. It was a challenge to debug.
Tracy Pearson PowerChurch Software