My organization has an existing installation of Windchill and PDMLink and we are interested in integrating the Part and BOM data from those systems with third-party systems in the Enterprise. Our intention is to write a Java app that pulls data from Windchill/PDMLink and puts it into the other systems. We don't have a big ERP system, so we're not interested in doing heavy automated connectors -- we just want a simple way to retrieve data from Windchill using it's SOAP webservice.
Unfortunately, I can't find any documentation to get me started. I found some webservice documentation (http://<my windchill server>/Windchill/infoengine/jsp/tools/doc/index.jsp) but I don't know how to go about calling that webservice. Could somebody help point me in the right direction?
- How do I do a simple SOAP call to retrieve information from Windchill?
- If I get the Windchill installation files, is there an API or something I can include in my Java project?
- Is there somewhere I can find sample code for this scenario?
Any help would be appreciate and I'm happy to clarify or provide further information if necessary. Thanks!