SERVICES marcusweden wrote:

>  Hi everyone!

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>  Can someone tell me:
>  
>  1) Where I can find more information about the basic steps I have to 
>  perform? As said, I will not develop the system myself, but present a 
>  concept for how to do it. Haven't found any good information about 
>  integrating a SOAP client in an ERP. 
> 

Sorry all for this advertisement, but given that I am an employee of 
webMethods, I would use webMethods Integration Platform [1] with the 
appropriate ERP Adapter [2] and JDBC Adapter to provide integration from 
ERP systems to databases. This solution would not require IIS or a 
separate application server. The ERP Adapters often provide better 
integration to the ERP systems than the vendor's SOAP interfaces do, or 
the ERP SOAP interfaces are OEMed versions of webMethods products.

[1] http://www.webmethods.com/meta/default/folder/0000003869

[2] http://www.webmethods.com/meta/default/folder/0000003910

>  2) if it's better to send a XML-file embed in the SOAP message or as 
>  an attachment? The XML-file is quite small.

The main reason to use SOAP with Attachments is to allow intermediaries 
to process the SOAP message (like looking at the headers) without 
requiring them to decode the attachment. If you are not going through an 
intermediary, sending the XML as the SOAP body makes life simpler and 
you don't lose anything.

>  
>  3) can this be considered a web service? 
>  

I consider anything that can be defined by a WSDL and then accessed via 
SOAP messages that correspond to that WSDL as a web service.

Cheers,
Fred

>  Thanks in advance!
>  
>  Marcus



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