Working with Web Services

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.

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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.