Can OBIEE consume a web service?

Hello All,
As the subject suggests I want to pull in a java report into OBIEE calling a web service.
Can this be done? Could you let me know the steps involved?
Thanks,
Lino

If you are using Oracle you could use [this technique|http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/java/jsp/samples/wsclient/Readme.html]. However Web Services are not designed to be used to pull massive amounts of data so it will be advisable to develop some sort of Java process that dumps all the data required onto a database as part of your ETL.

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Hi Raja,
Following patterns will likely give you a good idea of the type of problems you will have to address in real-world apps involving interactions with async Web services. I would encourage you to make the leap to studying BPEL4WS (and possibly WS-Transaction as well if you have true transactional requirements).
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Hi Friends,
Could any of you provide me a clear picture on how to consume a web service from SAP system and is provided by a third party system?
Do we get an URL to create a client proxy for consuming the web service?
Thanx in advance,
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Hi Ram,
of course you cannot supply the WSDL URL. Inside the WSDL (just view it in your browser) you find (usually but not necessary) towards the end something like
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I am consuming a web service in ColdFusion what was written in .NET. Some methods of the web service work fine, but some we get the below error. We have identified the issue is the name of one of the properties in the web service appears to be the issue. The property name is ID. This is a very common property name so I would think someone has run across this before. It appears that maybe ID is a default property for Axis? I can dump the method that works and I see there is a getID() method with a return type of org.apache.axis.types.Id.
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faultActor:
faultNode:
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java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "i1"
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at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializerImpl.startElement(DeserializerImpl.java:393)
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at org.apache.axis.encoding.DeserializationContext.startElement(DeserializationContext.java: 1048)
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at org.apache.axis.message.MessageElement.publishToHandler(MessageElement.java:1141)
at org.apache.axis.message... ''
I am running CF 11 Update 4.

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Hi All,
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Thanks
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Hi,
You need to use destinations for metadata and modeldata.
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you can refer to following link.
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/b2bc0932-0d01-0010-6d8e-cff1b2f22bc7
Regards,
Shruti.

Handling of SOAP Faults in SOAP Clients consuming PI Web services

Hi there,
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I have been reading a number of threads and blogs in regards to this topic and I am still left with some open questions which I hope to get some final answersclarifications through this thread.
In particular the blogs
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have caused by attention.
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1. When an error occurs at the IE level (e.g. mapping error), ABAP Proxy framework level (e.g. conversion from XML to ABAP format) or Adapter Framework level (Adapter releated error) a different SOAP fault message structure is returned to the SOAP Client than the one    used for the application errors. The SOAP fault message structure used in this case is the standard SOAP fault used by PI to return system errors back to the caller. For those SOAP fault messages there is no payload generated that could be mapped to the SOAP fault structure used for the application errors. This would be preferrable as there would be only one Fault message structure used for both inbound ABAP proxy generated fault messages and PI generated fault messages.
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SOAP fault using integrated SOAP adapter of PI IE
<SOAP:Envelope xmlns:SOAP="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
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      </SOAP:Fault>
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</SOAP:Envelope>
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There may already be a blog or thread and I just missed it.
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Thanks. Dieter

Hi Dieter,
As Bhavesh already mentioned fault messages are used for application errors. The same is described in SAP XI help:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/dd/b7623c6369f454e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
In case of system error (e.g. field length too long in proxy call or error in XI/PI mapping) there seems to be no standard way of handling it and propagating the response to the consumer of webservice.
Each system error is not recognized by SOAP adapter and SOAP adapter exception is raised.
The only bizzare solution that I can see is developing an adapter module and transport wrong message to standard fault message before delivering it to adapter engine:
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/a4/f13341771b4c0de10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
Kind regards,
Wojciech
btw nice thread

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Hi All,
We are consuming a Web service ( Microsoft Share point ) through our Web dynpro Application.
Every time we consume the web service , there is a popup for authentication to connect to the Share point server. The problem is that the popup actually appears in the SAP GUI client and not as a web based popup hence it does not appear in the Web dynpro Application.
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Hello,
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/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2004/11/17/bsp-a-developers-journal-part-xiv--consuming-webservices-with-abap
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The Web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the Web site, and the IP address of your browsing computer is on this list. Please try the following: Contact the Web site administrator if you believe you should be able to view this directory or page.
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How to install and consume GroupWise Web Service (SOAP)

Hello! I'm Razvan, programmer from Romnia, and I am new to GroupWise development.
I am asking if anyone could help me with a C# Visual Studio 2010 example of how to install and consume GroupWise Web Service (SOAP).
The documentation from novell site didn't help me, i didn't understant much of it.
All I need is either a link to a documented GroupWise C# developer step-by-step tutorial, or some code examples.
Can you please show me some code examples in C# with:
1)loging in using a username and a password,
2)retrieving contact list,
3)retrieving appointment list,
4)sending a mail,
5)setting an appointment
I don't know how to use "groupwise.wsdl" and customise it so that it points to our GroupWise server.
Please, I really need this because I am working at a project right now which involves GroupWise integration.
I hope I haven't disturbed anyone with my simple question.
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Just a comment.
The value for the version element should be "1.02"
not "1.2".
Preston
>>> On Tuesday, March 01, 2011 at 8:06 AM,
TheRomanian<[email protected]> wrote:
> I have great news! After strong documentation yesterday and today, I've
> just made a successfull example that actually connects to our GroupWise
> server.
>
> I made it in PHP.
>
> I need an ASP.NET + C# application, but now is very simple to convert
> it. I post the PHP code here for other people who in future might be
> interested in finding out.
>
> So a simple PHP GroupWise Login code using "groupwise.wsdl" web
> service:
>
>
> require_once('./GWService/GroupwiseService.php');
> require_once('FB.class.php');
>
> $classmap = array(
> 'Authenication' => 'Authenication',
> 'PlainText' => 'PlainText',
> 'loginRequest' => 'loginRequest',
> 'loginResponse' => 'loginResponse',
> 'logoutRequest' => 'logoutRequest',
> 'logoutResponse' => 'logoutResponse',
> 'UserInfo' => 'UserInfo',
> );
>
> $gwservice = new GroupwiseService(
> "./WSDL/groupwise.wsdl",
> array(
> "location" => "http://11.150.40.78:8756/soap",
> *Your GroupWise server IP:
> and PORT*
> "classmap" => $classmap,
> "trace" => true)
> );
>
> // do login
> $pt = new PlainText();
> $pt‑>username = *"YOUR GROUPWISE USERNAME"*;
> $pt‑>password = *"YOUR GROUPWISE PASSWORD"*;
>
> $lr = new loginRequest();
> $lr‑>auth = $pt;
> $lr‑>language = "en";
> $lr‑>version = "1.2";
> $lr‑>application = "phpClient";
>
> $lres = $gwservice‑>loginRequest($lr);
> //print_r($lres);
>
>
> I Hope this will help others.
>
> ‑‑
> Signature:
>
> How old is the Orthodox Faith?
> 'How old is the orthodox faith?'
> (http://www.orthodoxphotos.com/history.shtml)

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Hi experts,
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But my requirement is to implement the following web service: http://ws1.webservices.nl/business/soap_doclit?wsdl it is a document/literal soap web service and WS-I Basic Profile 1.0 compliant. When I try to create a proxy object I get the following errors:
- Exception occurred in library handler
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check the beginning of your WSDL file
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<wsdl:definitions xmlns:wsdl="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/" xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/wsdl/soap/" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/" xmlns:wsa="http://www.w3.org/2005/08/addressing"
followed by the namespaces related to your web service if required.
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I'm doing kind of feasibility study on consuming SAP web
services from CF.
So far so good, but I'm stuck dealing with tables
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I know how to receive a table object from SAP functions:
* With Apache Axis v1.2: pass an empty CF structure as a
parameter
* With Apache Axis v1.4: pass an empty CF array as a
parameter
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I tried passing (1) CF array of structure and (2) Java
ArrayList with no chance.
The web service call itself completes without errors (no
method signature error), but the SAP function seems to see the
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Now I'm looking at the code generated by Flex Builder to see
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ABAP code and konfiguration for consuming secure web services

I need some help/links on how to create an abap program (on 4.6 or WAS 620, or 640 if not possible in older releases) to consume a web service with authentication using certificates based on WS security (<a href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wss">http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/wss</a>) or client certificates. The request must include attachment in DIME or base64 format (preferably DIME).
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Message was edited by: Robert

check out this weblog.
<a href="/people/thomas.jung3/blog/2005/05/13/calling-webservices-from-abap-via-https">Calling WebServices from ABAP via HTTPS</a>
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WebDynpro Consuming a Web Service via SSL (https)

Hello dovelopers,
i want to consume a Web Service in a WebDynpro Application via https.
can anybody give me a few links to pdfs etc.
Thank You
Michel

Try this:
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/f5/30c5aca7f92f418d889b99ccc9ee08/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/df/a08340d990ce62e10000000a155106/content.htm
http://www.sapportalguide.com/web_services.html
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/43/2235260b413fe1e10000000a11466f/content.htm
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/62/881e3e3986f701e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/d3/41c8efb31d11d5993800508b6b8b11/frameset.htm
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Consuming ABAP Web Service in Non SAP system

Hi
I have created an ABAP web service form the RFC and configured it in the SOAMANAGER. I have tested it in Web Service Navigator using the URL and it is working fine.
Now I am trying to access it from the Non SAP system using Java Code. I am able to access the WSDL using the URL from the step 1 but not able to receive any output when providing inputs.
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