Small but important win – we have XML!
Posted by MikeT on September 17, 2009
We have now received the updated documentation for the API. This is good news, but doesn’t necessarily mean a step forward for the project; indeed there was nothing obvious in the documentation that I could use to make the example from the old documentation work correctly (there is no example at all in the new set of documents).
However, another file included in the archive, ESTI.wsdl, proved to be the key to the whole thing. For a quick bit of background information, the example from the old documentation instructed us to generate the java source files using a WSDL file retrieved from a remote server. Regenerating the java files using the newly supplied WSDL file was all it took to get the example working and spewing out copious amounts of (hopefully) useful XML.
I think we can breathe a sigh of relief now that we can move forward with the project again.
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Nick Sheppard said
This is great news Mike.
As you indicated in your email, I think we now need to refine our use case(s) and run through them manually to inform the precise process or processes that we want to automate; then we can explore how we can practically achieve ‘The Process™’ using the API.
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