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
Overview
Web Service is a software system that supports interaction between computers over a network. The Web Service agents communicate through SOAP in XML syntax, and use WSDL files.
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- Define a Web Service (WS) profile or profiles.
- Include the Web Service agents and their configurations in a workflow.
The Web Service Agents
There are two Web Service agents that you can include in real-time workflows in the w:
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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