We have a financial product that has built in scheduling capabilities to run over night batches. This product can also use web services to kick off each batch as required.
I want to know if it is possible to call the web services from a .bat file or another type of batch/script file. If this is possible then we can call the batch file from the companies scheduling service (Autosys).
I don't want to write a exe to call this if possible (circumstances outside my control).
KISS approach :)
This is a take on John'o's answer that uses Microsoft.XmlHttp (which should already exist on the server\workstation)
Create a .vbs a
Set http = CreateObject("Microsoft.XmlHttp")
http.open "GET", "http://www.webservicex.net/stockquote.asmx?WSDL", FALSE
http.send ""
WScript.Echo http.responseText
Hi All I found the answer if anyone else is looking to do the same thing. The following link has an example using a .vb script to call the WS.
KISS Approach
in your bat file
iexplore.exe <url to webpage that consumes the webservice>
would that work ?
IMHO, KISS demands that you not use a scripting language that has no built-in web service support. Anything you do in that language will complicate things just to provide the missing capability.
KISS says create a console application in Visual Studio, add a Service Reference, call the necessary method, then run the console application in your .bat file. .bat files have built-in support for running console applications.
