Using the Soap-Interface¶

The SOAP-interface provides a interface for foreign application, which runs outside the dSS on his own plattform. This could be a typical end-user application running on a PC. SOAP don't enforces a specific programming enviroment for such foreign application, there are for many different programming language SOAP-translators oder SOAP-stubs, which can be used to get a easy access to the interface.

The generell approach to develop a application utilizing the SOAP-access of the dss is

• get the description of avaible commands
  http://developer.digitalstrom.org/download/dss/1.0/dss-1.0.3-doc/dss-1.0.3.wsdl

• make a translation of the wsdl file to the target programming language
  that could be a external compiler (like gsoap), or build-in support like in .Net or the axis libraries in java

• implement a sufficient handling of the ssl-certificate
  the ssl-certificate of the dSS provided from the manufacture is self-signed, so it can be a little challenge to accept the connection
  handle the certificate in java
  handle the certificate in .net

• make your cool programm and tell the community about it ;-)
  all commands of the soap-interface need a token with the exception of the authenticate-call; this call gives you that token. so first you must call authenticate and get your token
  sample java code
  sample .net code