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Hi,

I tried to create a new process which should just call a url with some parameters (which makes some actions on other server). I thought "Invoke Web Service" is the right one. But unfortunatelly I didn't succeed.

- Is "Invoke Web Service" the action for my needing?

- Isn't there a howto so I can create a small process which just call an url: http//host/face/action.url?ArgumentA=123&ArgumentB=456

AgrumentA and ArgumentB are given by input-variable.

I would be glad if there is such example so I can see how the process should look like.

cu Floh

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What are you expecting to happen when you call that URL. Is that simply a web page that is supposed to get displayed? Is there a program on the URL that will return something? Maybe a bit more explanation of your use coase woudl be helpful.

Paul

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What are you expecting to happen when you call that URL. Is that simply a web page that is supposed to get displayed? Is there a program on the URL that will return something? Maybe a bit more explanation of your use coase woudl be helpful.

Paul

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We currently don't have a service that makes http calls from LiveCycle.

You can build a custom component to do that if you want. This is something I've done in the past.

Jasmin

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On Webserver there is tomcat6 running. The"webpage" on that will call a java function. This will create some datas in MySQL-DB (this is why some parameters are needed in URL) and it will create a instance on the webserver.

This webpage doesn't display anything except if error happened there. But later I would like return a string/long (not decided yet) back to LC.

What about "Invoke Web Service"?

Do you mean by programming own java function?

cu Floh

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The post that Jasmin made holds true then.

Paul

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Well, you're right. I implemented a small java application, which successfully called the url and got the content. I'd like put it in a process by doing "define action". But I dunno how it should be done. Is there a Java-documentation for process-action? And Howto for inserting java-source into LC ES2?

Thank you!

cu Floh

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Thank you very much! I assume I can use that on our ES2 server even if the documentation is for ES2.5.

Have a nice day!

Floh

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Yes. It hasn't changed in ES2.

Something else that you might find interesting is we have an Eclipse plugin to help you build the custom component.

You can find it here: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lcwcdtool/

I hope this helps.

Jasmin

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Thank you very much! The URLs will help me a lot.

cu Floh

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