Soap mapping question

Question

Gurus,
i need to send a request to a third party app as a soap message, then map the response to an idoc, how do we do it..any ideas.
Has this been done..before, all tips are rewarded
Venkat

Answer 1

I need more information about your scenario, but i know that you need to call a WebService using SOAP (a syncronous call) and then, call a IDoc with the result of the SOAP call, right?
So, the mapping program between the sender(?) and the receiver(IDoc), you create a Java Mapping that calls the WebService with a code like this:
try {
                         StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
                         sb.append(your_POST_data_here);
                         System.setProperty("javax.net.ssl.trustStore", "C:\j2sdk1.4.2_14\jre\lib\security\truststore"); //Set the keystore for the ssl connection
                         int port = 443;
                         String hostname = "your_third_party_hostname";
                         SocketFactory socketFactory = SSLSocketFactory.getDefault();
                         Socket socket = socketFactory.createSocket(hostname, port);
                         // Create streams to securely send and receive data to the server
                         InputStream in = socket.getInputStream();
                         OutputStream out = socket.getOutputStream();
                         // Read from in and write to out...
                         out.write(sb.toString().getBytes("US-ASCII"));
                         out.flush();
                         int character = in.read();
                         sb = new StringBuffer();
                         while (character != -1) {
                               sb.append( (char) character);                              character = in.read();
                         String ret = sb.toString(); //this is your return
                         // Close the socket
                         in.close();
                         out.close();
               } catch(IOException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
The code above calls the webservice using socks.
All you have to do is map the xml using DOM or SAX.