Working with Web Service Interface Explorer |
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A Web service operation usually contains a query or a task that determines which data is being requested or which action must be taken. Web service interfaces are an aggregation of Web service operations, and are associated with Service Groups. These Web service operations contain an implementation, interface. Process Platform exposes its Web service operations as Web services. Every Web service operation contains two schema definitions - Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and XML Schema Definition (XSD).
- WSDL - This is an XML grammar that provides the detailed description of the request or response that is to be sent or received to/from the backend, including parameters and data types.
- XSD - This specifies the type definition of the business object that is to be returned from the back end.
You can work with Web service interfaces using the Web Service Interface Explorer. Click
(Web service Interface Explorer) on CUSP or in the System Resource Manager window to access it. You can search for Web service interfaces or operations and perform the following on them: - Test a Web service operation
- Delete a Web service Interface or Operation
- View Implementation and Interface of a Web service operation
Apart from these, you can also Set Security Permissions and publish Web services to an External UDDI Registry. The Web service interfaces can be classified as follows: - Packaged - These originate from the application packages and are represented as
. - Custom - These are generated by the user as per the business needs and are represented as
.