Zend PHP - invoke JDE programs to populate Address Book

[Eric Lehti]

Testing this now.
Zend PHP - from web page, run JDE programs to populate Address Book.
Using Zend Server for IBM i and XML Toolkit
http://www.zend.com/en/products/server/downloads
Also, the open source from youngiprofessionals.com

Using the Samples/Toolkit/CLCommand.php as a template.

 

[denvertlc]

Hi Eric - if you're using A9.2 or above, did you consider using the web services for access?

 

[brandonkirsch]

I made a small J2EE Servlet that acts as a wrapper for the native JDE XML Interop components, allowing you to use HTTP POST to send JDERequest documents and receive JDEResponse in return. It's free and it works pretty well: https://github.com/brandonkirsch/JDEdwards-XMLRequest-Servlet

The setup is fairly straightforward: Install Tomcat somewhere, copy in the Servlet as well as your JDE XML Connector JARs and start writing PHP that uses HTTP POST to send your JDERequest XML into JDE. The HTTP response body will contain the entirety of the JDEResponse document.

We used that in production successfully with both JDE XE (on AS/400) and JDE 9.1 (on Windows / SQL Server)

If you want a commercial offering and the support it entails, EverestPoint software has something that looks very nice as well: http://www.everestsoftint.com/products_everest2jde.php

I don't have any experience with the Everest2JDE product but it sounds nice.