Using WebServices without WSDL

Hello,

I'd like to know if anyone has already tried to use a web service without having the WSDL ?

I have an application using some web services developped in PHP but i'm lacking the WSDL descriptor for the services. Is it possible to call a service within BIRT anyway ?
The Web Service datasource seems to work only with WSDL and the XML datasource only accept an URL as a parameter and not a full post.

I have a sample XML client call, I'd like to change some parameters using BIRT parameters, call the web service server URL, get the response and use it as my dataset.

Thanks,

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mwilliams

Hi Tchule, 
 
If you're using BIRT 2.2.1 or later, there is an option of using a custom driver class when you are trying to make a web services dataSource. I don't have an example of this, but Jason Weathersby does here in his blog: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2007/10/birt-web-service-oda.html'>http://birtworld.blogspot.com/2007/10/birt-web-service-oda.html</a> 
 
Hope this helps.

Tchule

Thanks Michael, I'll have a look.