Using Asynchronous beans with WebSphere Commerce bE 5.6.1

[VijayaR]

Our client has a need to invoke asynchronous webservice call in the order process.

I plan to propose Asynchronous beans to achieve this functionality.

They are on Commerce BE 5.6.1 and AppServer 5.1.1.12 base. Since Asynchronous beans are only supported in WBISF or WAS Enterprise version, we have to develop the asynchronous beans in another workspace with WSAD-IE and integrate the code in Commerce Developer Toolkit.

I am wondering whether any one accomplished the above?

[m***@bco.com]

We had to call an async web service during order process for WC BE 5.6.

What we did was just generate the web service client in the WC BE Developer 5.6 (no special WSAD). Since the WSDL was already modified to have no response the generated client worked correctly for us. Also the async service used JMS instead of HTTP.

[VijayaR]

Our webservice uses HTTP and has a response.

Here is the flow they need:

-Show a status page indicating that there is a background(webservice) process in progress and then invoke the webservice.

-If the webservice call returns with a response, then process the response and act based on the response.

-From the status page, Shopper gets to choose to ignore the webservice call and proceed to next page (or intended).