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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

Overview

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 :

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

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Web Service Profile

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

  • XML Schema: Defines information about the service either directly or via an XSD-file

  • WSDL: Communication relevant information

  • Binding elements: supports only SOAP bindings

The WS profile can include more than one WSDL file references.

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  1. a workflow

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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 collection Provider agent

  • The Web Service processing Request agent

Web Service

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Provider Agent

The collecting 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 workflowa workflow.

In a synchronous operation, when the collection agent receives a reply back from the workflow, it delivers the response to the requesting client.

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The Web Service Provider - asynchronous operation

Web Service

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Request Agent

The processing 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 Service Requester - asynchronous operation

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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. 

You enable Web Serice transactions in by defining a WS profile, or profiles, and including the Web Sc agents and their configurations in a workflow.


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