Parent topic: Client
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Writing a GWS client application

The Genero Web Services package (GWS) allows a BDL program to access Web services found on the Internet. GWS supports the WSDL1.1 specification of March 15, 2002. This example illustrates a client application that accesses the Add operation in the GWS Web Service MyCalculator.

See Writing a Web server application for information about the Service.

  1. Obtaining the WSDL information
  2. Calling a web service
  3. Setting a time period for the response
    To protect against remote server failure or unavailability, set a timeout value that indicates how long you are willing to wait for the server to respond to your request.
  4. Handling GWS server errors
    When a Genero Web Services Service operation returns a status that is non-zero, you can get a more detailed error description from the global record wsError.
  5. Compiling the client application
Parent topic: Client