Ramblings of a Programmer

I am working with someone to properly understand how to call an ASP.NET web service from PeopleSoft. After several tries, I finally saw down at the keyboard Sunday night and put together some code to call the web service from a Java application. I learned very quickly that if you do not have all your ducks in a row, most likely, the SOAP request will not work.

The thing that I struggled with the most last night was getting the Content-Length value set properly. When I thought I had it set just right, I would use the code to access a different web service with different parameter names and it would no longer work.

I finally figured out after a lot of trial and error that the Content-Length value in the POST header for the SOAP message only includes the length of the content in the SOAP message body, which is encompassed by the tags.

Too many acronyms there. I started playing around with a new technology today. Welll, it is new to me, anyway. I am having to transform some data from a web service into HTML. I have only started working with XSLT. I am doing some very basic transformations which takes the data in the XML dataset and put it in a tabular format that is easily read by the viewer of the pagelet.

I downloaded the Unicorn XSLT Processor to do the transformations after I created my XSLT. It is command line driven, but it works well for what I am doing.

One thing that I need to do next is learn how to apply a style sheet (CSS) to the HTML as I do the transformation so that I can get the proper look that I want.