Calling web service from JDE

[siva99]

Can LynX Business Integrator be used to call web services from JDE? We are looking to integrate JDE with UPS and Fedex.

 

[Cool Calico]

We can do that through Outbound Web Services (OWS).

 

[siva99]

Can you explain how that works? We are looking at BSSV and it looks like it will take a lot of effort to implement.

 

[Cool Calico]

OWS is a set of business functions we provide to call the LynX Web Service, which in turn will execute a business process that will call the web service for you. So:

JDE ==> Outbound Business Functions ==> LynX Web Service ==> Business Process (C#) ==> Outbound Web Service

The actual web service call is made in the business process, which is written in C#. This takes out the complexity of implementing this through C API.

 

[siva99]

I am not clear on how the data is passed from JDE to the outbound business function. How can the same set of business functions accommodate the data we need to send out for all scenarios? Do we have to pre-format the data in ER code?

 

[Cool Calico]

The outbound business functions create an XML document. There are several functions to:

• Load an existing XML document (as a template)
• Create elements and attributes
• Delete elements and attributes
• Submit the XML document to the LynX Web Service
• Read the output XML document (for errors etc.)

In your ER code, you would use these functions to build an XML document on the fly, submit the document and read the output. The business process calls the third-party web service.