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icon3.gif   Request: elog as a "web service" ? (xml / soap), posted by Willem Koster on Wed Apr 23 10:53:58 2008 
    icon2.gif   Re: Request: elog as a "web service" ? (xml / soap), posted by Stefan Ritt on Wed Apr 23 11:51:06 2008 
Message ID: 65848     Entry time: Wed Apr 23 10:53:58 2008     Reply to this: 65849
Icon: Idea  Author: Willem Koster  Author Email: W.Koster@rug.nl 
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Subject: Request: elog as a "web service" ? (xml / soap) 

We're using elog as our CMDB, but now management wants us to employ "web services" and I fear going to another tool (elog is fitting the admins like a glove, so we'd rather keep it)

Is it possible to configure elog to be able to run as a web-service ?  (basically getting xml-output according to a specific (SOAP) schema instead of html output)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_services

A 'Web service' (also Web Service) is defined by the W3C as "a software system designed to support interoperable Machine to Machine interaction over a network." Web services are frequently just Web APIs that can be accessed over a network, such as the Internet, and executed on a remote system hosting the requested services.

The W3C Web service definition encompasses many different systems, but in common usage the term refers to clients and servers that communicate using XML messages that follow the SOAP standard. Common in both the field and the terminology is the assumption that there is also a machine readable description of the operations supported by the server written in the Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The latter is not a requirement of a SOAP endpoint, but it is a prerequisite for automated client-side code generation in many Java and .NET SOAP frameworks (frameworks such as Spring and Apache CXF being notable exceptions). Some industry organizations, such as the WS-I, mandate both SOAP and WSDL in their definition of a Web service.

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