Integration Server 10.3 | Web Services Developer’s Guide | Working with Web Services
 
Working with Web Services
 
What Are Web Service Descriptors?
About Provider Web Service Descriptors
About Consumer Web Service Descriptors
About Refreshing a Web Service Descriptor
Viewing the WSDL Document for a Web Service Descriptor
WS-I Compliance for Web Service Descriptors
Changing the Target Namespace for a Web Service Descriptor
Viewing the Namespaces Used within a WSDL Document
Enabling MTOM/XOP Support for a Web Service Descriptor
Adding SOAP Headers to the Pipeline
Validating SOAP Response
Validating Schemas Associated with a Web Service Descriptor
Working with Binders
Working with Operations
Adding Headers to an Operation
About SOAP Fault Processing
Viewing Document Types for a Header or Fault Element
Working with Handlers
Working with Policies
About Pre-8.2 Compatibility Mode
Web services are building blocks for creating open, distributed systems. A web service is a collection of functions that are packaged as a single unit and published to a network for use by other software programs. For example, you could create a web service that checks a customer’s credit or tracks delivery of a package. If you want to provide higher-level functionality, such as a complete order management system, you could create a web service that maps to many different IS flow services, each performing a separate order management function.
Designer uses web service descriptors to encapsulate information about web services and uses web service connectors to invoke web services.
Note:
Information about web services is located in webMethods Service Development Help, Web Services Developer’s Guide, and webMethods Integration Server Administrator’s Guide.
* webMethods Service Development Help includes this Working with Web Services topic which provides procedures for using Designer to create web service descriptors, adding operations, binders, handlers, and policies to a web service descriptor; and setting web service descriptor properties.
* Web Services Developer’s Guide contains information such as how Integration Server processes web services, how a SOAP fault is represented in the pipeline, steps to configure MTOM streaming when sending and receiving SOAP messages using web services, and how to secure web services with WS-Security and WSSecurityPolicy. For completeness, Web Services Developer’s Guide also contains the Working with Web Services topic that appears in webMethods Service Development Help.
* webMethods Integration Server Administrator’s Guide contains information about creating web service endpoint alias and configuring Integration Server to use web services reliable messaging.