Comments on: Calling Webservices from pl/sql

By: Frederik Vallaeys

Frederik Vallaeys — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 18:27:00 +0000

You need to use a webservice which is defined as being a document/literal and afterwards you can use Document to retrieve information from the XMLDocument. Which errors are you running into?

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:56:00 +0000

It looks like your dealing with an Axis multiRef object. I’m trying to do the same with little success in terms or extracting the values from the returned XMLTYPE. Is there a trick to referencing the multiRef elements and attributes (i’m assuming that you are calling the web service and getting a multiRef returned).- Mark

By: Frederik Vallaeys

Frederik Vallaeys — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 10:43:00 +0000

Thanks Jim for your remark.You are right, if you use the utl_dbws package the code would be much neater, but for this project we didn’t used it because if you want to use this package you have to do some additional setups for your database (load java code for example), since we had very limited access to this db, it was easier(and faster) to use the http package.Using the utl_dbws is also not as easy as it should be, because of the lack of good documentation.

By: f-o-f

f-o-f — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:01:00 +0000

At the risk of asking a silly question, why didn’t you just use the built-in UTL_DBWS package (ex http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/10g/utl_dbws10g.php)? It’s a little more verbose syntax, but I assume much more robust, especially for parameter passing, exception handling, and overall session management. I haven’t used utl_dbws yet, but my experience with utl_http has been spotty at best, especially under load, so I would guess (hope!) utl_dbws is more reliable.-Jim