Call of an external web service out of the ABAP-Stack

Question

Hi experts,
i have to implement a call of an external webservice out of the ABAP-stack. Directly from an ABAP-report, not using any PI/XI.
The only thing the one implemented the service could give me was a description of the SOAP-call which should take place (see code below). So i should pass some data, call the function 'makeACall', and receive some data. But i have no idea how to use the calls of the include SOAPINCL. Is there any example showing the 'translation' of such a SOAP-message into an ABAP-stack-call?
Thanks and regards
Christian
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<SOAP-ENV:Envelope xmlns:SOAP-ENV="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" xmlns:SOAP-ENC="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:XXX="urn:nsf">
<SOAP-ENV:Body SOAP-ENV:encodingStyle="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" id="_0">
<makeACall xmlns="urn:nsf">
     <in xsi:type="xsd:string">
          <BaseApp>
                    <Control>
                         <Plugin><![CDATA[]]></Plugin>
                         <Function><![CDATA[]]></Function>
                         <Configuration><![CDATA[]]></Configuration>
                         <ConfigurationName><![CDATA[]]></ConfigurationName>
                    </Control>
               <Input>
                    <DetInput>
                         <CustomerData>
                              <Record><![CDATA[]]></Record>
                              <Record><![CDATA[]]></Record>
                         </CustomerData>
                         <otherData>
                              <GroupId><![CDATA[]]></GroupId>
                         </otherData>
                    </DetInput>
               </Input>
          </BaseApp>
     </in>
</makeACall>
</SOAP-ENV:Body>
</SOAP-ENV:Envelope>

Answer 1

Hi,
BAM has a set of default web services. You can implement your own web service call and populate the data object with corresponding codes. For instance, if you would want to monitor 2 web services, create a data object with two columns.
This web service would run every minute and populate the data object columns with 1/0 depending on the state. You could create a chart from this data object to display the status of the web service.
Please explore more into how to implement web services using BAM. BAM already has few of them and you need to add yours to this.
Cheers,
-AR