You can create a service provider application from a web
service description that complies with WSDL 1.1 or WSDL 2.0, or from
a high-level language data structure. The CICS® web
services assistant helps you to deploy your CICS applications
in a service provider setting.
About this task
When you use the assistant to deploy a CICS application
as a service provider, you have two options:
- Start with a web service description and use the assistant to
generate the language data structures.
Use this option when you
are implementing a service provider that conforms with an existing
web service description.
- Start with the language data structures and use the assistant
to generate the web service description.
Use this option when you
are exposing an existing program as a web service and are willing
to expose aspects of the program interfaces in the web service description
and the SOAP messages.
You can expose the web service description associated with your
service provider using a URI. This URI has the same path as the URI
associated with the WEBSERVICE with the suffix
?wsdl appended. This
enables requesters within your business, or external to it, to discover
the WSDL files associated with your service providers.