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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To enable Web Service transactions in:
- Define a Web Service (WS) profile or profiles.
- 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:
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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- workflow.
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 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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The Web Service Requester - asynchronous operation
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