NonStop SOAP 4.1 User's Manual

10 NonStop SOAP Tools
The NonStop SOAP 4 distribution includes tools that help perform important tasks, such as:
• Generating the WSDL file, the services.xml file, HTML clients, and SOAP request and
response XML files for NonStop SOAP 4
• Migrating services from NonStop SOAP 3 to NonStop SOAP 4
• Generating client stubs and service skeleton files using WSDL files as input
This chapter describes the following tools that are available with the NonStop SOAP 4 distribution:
• “The SoapAdminCL Tool” (page 194)
• “The WSDL2PWY Tool” (page 203)
• “The WSDL2C Tool” (page 211)
This chapter also describes the “The NonStop SOAP 4 Administration Utility” (page 215).
The SoapAdminCL Tool
The SoapAdminCL tool is a standalone command-line tool that runs in the OSS environment on
NonStop systems. You can use the SoapAdminCL tool to perform the following tasks:
• Generate the WSDL file, the services.xml file, HTML clients, XML schema files, and SOAP
request and response XML files using the SDL file as an input
• Generate module and handler stubs
• Generate Message Receiver User Functions stubs
• Generate the SDL file from the NonStop SOAP 3 SDR file
NOTE: All the options are case sensitive.
This section describes the following topics:
• “Generating NonStop SOAP 4 Files using the SDL File” (page 194)
• “Generating Module and Handler Stubs” (page 199)
• “Generating Message Receiver User Functions Stubs” (page 200)
• “Generating the NonStop SOAP 4 SDL File from the NonStop SOAP 3 SDR File” (page 201)
• “Additional Options” (page 202)
Generating NonStop SOAP 4 Files using the SDL File
The SoapAdminCL tool uses the SDL file and the DDL dictionaries to generate the following:
• WSDL file: used by NonStop SOAP 4 during runtime
• The services.xml file: used by NonStop SOAP 4 during runtime
• HTML client files: used to test your services
• XML schema files: used to provide request and response structure in XML schema
• SOAP request and response XML files: used to provide request and response structure in XML
• Migration WSDL files: used to migrate your applications from NonStop SOAP 3 to NonStop
SOAP 4
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