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This section describes the Web Service profile and agents. The agents are collection and processing agents for real-time workflow configurations.

Prerequisites

The reader of this information should be familiar with:

  • Web Services

  • WSDL

Web Service is a software system that supports interaction between computers over a network.

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The Web Service agents communicate through SOAP in XML syntax, and use WSDL files.

The Web Service agents support:

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The mustUnderstand attribute is only supported in Web Service Security headers. 

You enable To enable Web Service transactions in by defining a WS profile, or profiles, and including in :

  1. Define a Web Service (WS) profile or profiles.
  2. Include the Web Service agents and their configurations in a workflow.

Web Service Profile

In the WS profile you specify a WSDL file that mainly includes the following parts of a Web Service definition:

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Saving a WS profile that is assigned with a WSDL file, maps data types that are specified in the WSDL Schema section as UDR types for the workflow. For further information, see Web Service UDR Type Structure.

The Web Service Agents

There are two Web Service agents that you can include in real-time workflows in the workflow configuration dialog:

  • The Web Service Provider agent

  • The Web Service Request agent

Web Service Provider Agent

The Web Service Provider agent works in the same way as a Service Provider, or server, in the sense that it receives requests from a client, or clients, and transfers the requests to a workflow.

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The Web Service Provider - asynchronous operation

Web Service Request Agent

The Web Service Request agent works in the same way as a Service Requester, or a client, that sends a request to a server, where a certain service is available.

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The Web Servce agetcommunicate rough SOAP in XML syntax, and usWSDL ies.

The Web Servce aentspport:

  • We Srvie Interoperability Organiza Baic Profile 1.1

  • WSDL 11

  • XML 1.0

  • SOAP

  • Partial support of Security 1.1

  • HTTP 1.1

  • HTTP Basic Accesuthentication

  • Updatable Authorization header per request

  • HTTPS

  • IPv4 and IPv6

The mustUndrstad atribute ionly supported in Web Service Security headers. 

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