Saturday, July 17, 2004
The Goal and Approach
The Goal
My goal is to interface a perl based service with GP. I have to build classes in perl that will support browsing of customers, their transactions, and all the other good stuff.
The Approach
As far as I know the only option that I have is to use SOAP. For this I will need to create a web service that will run on Windows and then make the perl pieces talk to this web service. I have decided to use C# .Net to create the web service.
According to the eConnect manual there is a .Net dll (eConnect_API.dll) in the eConnect directory (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Great Plains\eConnect7\MBS eConnect EAI Incoming Service) but I couldn't find it there or anywhere else. Instead of spending anymore time looking for this dll I decided to use the COM dll.
My goal is to interface a perl based service with GP. I have to build classes in perl that will support browsing of customers, their transactions, and all the other good stuff.
The Approach
As far as I know the only option that I have is to use SOAP. For this I will need to create a web service that will run on Windows and then make the perl pieces talk to this web service. I have decided to use C# .Net to create the web service.
According to the eConnect manual there is a .Net dll (eConnect_API.dll) in the eConnect directory (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Great Plains\eConnect7\MBS eConnect EAI Incoming Service) but I couldn't find it there or anywhere else. Instead of spending anymore time looking for this dll I decided to use the COM dll.
