Web services facilitates the integration of IFS Applications with various other systems. It should be noted that this section refers to web services development done using 'webservice' models and not 'bizapi' models.
The web services developed using 'webservice' models are based on the Java API for XML-Based Web Services (JAX-WS) specification. In contrast to BizAPI based web services which are accessed via the IFS SOAP gateway, JAX-WS based web services are made available in a more standard way by a JavaEE compliant application server. Therefore access to JAX-WS web services do not require any of the IFS specific gateways.
These types of lightweight, standard (JAX-WS) web services are particularly useful when providing integration points for third party workflow engines. By using a webservice model any public PL/SQL method in the database can be exposed as a standard (JAX-WS) web service. The PL/SQL method can then be invoked by an external workflow engine via the web service.
NOTE: Exposing PL/SQL methods as JAX-WS web services using this method is only available from IFS Applications version 8.0-SP2 and above.
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