Full Day "Mini-Summit" Seminar

"Instant" Web Services and Stored Procedures with XMLSERVICE

Have you even been asked to provide a web service to access your data? To allow your programs to be called as SQL stored procedures from other platforms? These are just two of the things that XMLSERVICE will allow you to do, and with minuscule effort on your part. With XMLSERVICE you can "instantly" turn any program into a web service.

This session provides an overview of the features of XMLSERVICE a new open source project. XMLSERVICE is unusual in a number of ways. First it is a collaborative effort between IBM, Zend, and the IBM i community. Secondly it is entirely written in RPG! Yes - RPG. Zend is using XMLSERVICE as the foundation for the new PHP IBM i Toolkit which they will be making available to the entire PHP community.

We'll discuss the basics of how XMLSERVICE operates and study the details of the XML documents that form the tool's requests and responses. In addition will also study the different methods available for invoking XMLSERVICE functions. Last but not least we will quickly review the details of the new PHP Toolkit based on XMLSERVICE.