SOAP Service not discovering another AwareIM app

rocketman

I've followed the video tutorial, created a Service provide app which I called Soaptest.

Published it, logged in with the browser, created a guest account (no password)

Verified the tomcat output. also verified that the wsdl file had been created.

Went to set up the intelligent BO As an AwareIM system not a Software system in my calling app. keyed in the url using the format http://localhost:8080/AwareIM/services/bs name?wsdl

Tried to discover but just got the hourglass but no items appeared in the list.
The sending app has just one process which finds a single instance of a BO

Strangely the hourglass did not freeze me out. I was still able to click on other things, buttons etc - even log out of the configurator to go to bed

Any ideas would be appreciated

I noticed there were some issues around April time. Can support confirm whether this is working or is it broken again.

Powerm

Did you created one instance of the BO related to the wsdl ?

rocketman

Yes and for test purposes, my process finds just one member, although before I go live I will need to be able to get the calling app to send a membership number over and have the process return name and address.

Unfortunately the video tutorial isn't too hot on telling us how to do that and I'm still searching the help files.

For now, I'd just quite like to get (prove) a connection

For testing purposes, my Sending app just has FirstName, Surname and LoginName and my process simply says

FIND Members Where Members.LoginName=xxx (a number)

I've tested the sending app setting the Pilots intelligent BO as an AwareIM system and a Software System - neither works

The url string I used was http://localhost:8080/AwareIM/services/Soaptest?WSDL

I've also tried setting the Pilots BO as native AwareIM and Non Persisting again nothing works.

It is no doubt something very stupid that I've missed - but this is my first venture into SOAP (although I do wash regularly LoL)

Currently, both apps are on the same server. Do I need to open up any more ports on my firewall - I would have thought not but you never know ...

rocketman

Tried to discover the service in the video turorial at

http://www.webservicex.net/WeatherForecast.asmx?WSDL

File seems to be present and intact (viewable via web browser), but I am not able to discover anything.

rocketman

Support, I'm really thinking the Soap Services are broken.

This from the User Manual

Setting Properties of SOAP Channel
To set properties of the SOAP Channel press the Settings button of the SOAP Channel entry in the Communication Channels table on the Intelligence tab of the business object property editor. The SOAP Channel Settings Dialog will be displayed. The properties to be specified depend on whether the intelligent object represents the Aware IM-based system or a non-Aware IM system.

If the intelligent business object represents the Aware IM-based system (intelligence type is “Aware IM System”) the following properties must be specified:

Host name
The DNS name of the Aware IM server that runs another Aware IM system.

Host port
The port number through which another Aware IM system is listening for HTTP requests (if Aware IM runs under the Tomcat web server this number is usually 8080).

Login details
Select the “No login required” option if you want to work with another Aware IM system as a “guest” user – see Predefined Access Levels. Otherwise select the “Login Required” option, press the Details button and enter login credentials. Note that it is possible to indicate the name of the business space to log into provided that it is not the default business space in that system

This is NOT the case. What comes up is a dialog window which says "Please specify the url of the service provider. In fact the only place the details in the quotes appears is when I click the edit button next to the "Sockets" option

So I'm kinda stuck now because the manual seems to be about as much use as a chocolate teapot. Can any SOAP experts help

rocketman

Ok - please ignore my last message. AwareIM support have stated in a recent post, the written help is rubbish and the most up to date info is the video tutorial.

Thanks also to Pete Bradshaw for sharing his knowledge/experiences.

Later today I will replicate my work on my home PC and take down the firewall to see if I can get a connection.

In the meantime does anyone know whether I will need to tweak anything on a windows server 2008 server running in a data centre? (1and1) as I have now followed the tutorial to the letter and still can't make a connection

hpl123

Thanks for sharing the process of trying to get this to work. Interesting.

rocketman

Well Well Well ....Narrowing things down.

I just loaded the latest evaluation version on my home PC, set up a basic BSV Connected to my own production server instantly. In fact - couldn't have been easier, well done to the Aware team once again.

This of course means I still have an unresolved issue with my server set-up or the firewall settings. Any help would be appreciated.

Just one final thing that is puzzling me which the ideo tutorial doesn't go into and I can't find in the help files. How do I set the exposed BSV to require a parameter as input I want to to be able to request certain pieces of information about a club member (Name address, email address) by passing the exposed BSV a membership number and password.

So far in my test I've kept it simple. The process in the exposed BSV is simply FIND ALL Members (there is only one) but it needs to be

FIND Members WHERE Members.LoginName=xxx and Members.Password=yyy

How Do I request the xxx and yyy What would be the syntax for the above

Also, I don't want the entire Members record - only a very limited subset. Is it possible to manually edit the wsdl file or is there some other way limiting the returned data

rocketman

Today I made an AwareIM app to app connection on the same server. This was my home PC running XP and the latest evaluation version. So I am now satisfied that the main problems referred to in this post are due to my server config . I still have questions regarding Soap Setup but I will repost these in "general questions".

aware_support

Note for all users of web services:

PLEASE DO NOT USE "AWARE IM SYSTEM" AS AN INTELLIGENCE TYPE ANY MORE. USE "SOFTWARE SYSTEM" instead.