Calling a Web Service from Natural

Scenario: "I have a Web service and want to call this from a Natural application."

This scenario uses the tools IDL Extractor for WSDL and Natural Wrapper of the Designer.

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Solution: Take an existing Web service graphics/blue_1.gif and generate the integration logic graphics/blue_2.gif to call it from a Natural application graphics/blue_3.gif, as shown below.

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graphics/blue_1.gif Extract WSDL from Web service. See Using the IDL Extractor for WSDL.
graphics/blue_2.gif Generate client interface objects for Natural client application. See Natural Wrapper.
graphics/blue_3.gif Execute call from Natural client to Web service. See Sample Generation Result for the Client Side.