You have to read the requirements from this other business in particular the reply message. Will they send it to you and you have to receive, catch it at any time? Or is it an automatic return from the soap message you initially send?
I have done a few service apps and they are a lot of work as they start to grow in capability.
Heads up on the communication with their service. In some cases after you pass security checks they will send you an empty document, xml object in reality that is schema. You have to put in the correct settings and pass it back for them to get to the step you want to be at, submission of your soap message.
I had to interact with local county service for court data. After security they would send a what type of data are you interested in form. My situation was always pulling data for local consumption instead of uploading data. You may have it a lot easier.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:25 AM, Vince Teachout teachv@taconic.net wrote:
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!
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