Providing Web Services

Use

This chapter describes how to develop a Web Service using the outside-in approach. The special thing about this approach is that, irrespective of an implementation, you first define the interface of a service in the ES Repository . Depending on the application scenario the Web Service can then later be called in different ways, for example, point-to-point or using the Integration Server.

The following are relevant as provider of a Web Service:

  • The Web Service is to be implemented as part of an SAP application and can be called at the customer-side by a consumer.

  • To cover the requirements of a customer, an Independent Software Vendor (ISV) enhances an SAP application around a Web-Service.

  • Customers and Partners can create additional Web Services for their applications.

Procedure

In AS Java-based systems: Providing Web Services

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