IBM Generic Web Services Client Tool

Overview

Requirements

Download

FAQs

Forum

Reviews

Platform requirements for IBM Generic Web Services Client Tool

Operating system: Linux or Windows

Software:

• Apache HTTP Web application server, Version 2.0 (or above)
• PHP5 engine
• Libxml2 (for Linux installation)

Installation instructions for IBM Generic Web Services Client Tool

1. Place the directory of the Generic WS Client Tool (genWSclient) at your Apache document root (as defined by the DocumentRoot directive in httpd.conf).
2. Edit the file WSDLsToUse.txt (at genWSclient) to include the WSDL files you want to use: WSDL files on your local disk, directories of such files, or external URLs.
3. Download the nusoap.php module (available from, for example, Source Forge under the GNU Library or Lesser General Public License (LGPL)).
4. Modify nusoap.php to coexist wih PHP5's SOAP extension: Rename its soapclient class to NUsoapclient, and change all soapclient occurances within the file to NUsoapclient. This change is necessary because PHP5's SOAP extension already has, and uses, a soapclient class. The Generic WS Client tool expects nusoap.php to be changed to include the NUsoapclient class instead of soapclient.
5. Change your Apache configuration file, httpd.conf, to accept index.php as a default page: Modify the DirectoryIndex directive to also include index.php (for example, "DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var index.php").
6. Start the Apache server.
7. In your browser, go to the genWSclient directory on the server where your Apache operates (for example, http://localhost/genWSclient).

To learn more about the tool's features, please see the FAQ.