Creating the pipeline definition
The complete definition of a pipeline consists of a PIPELINE resource and a PIPELINE configuration file. The file contains the details of the message handlers that act on web service requests and responses as they pass through the pipeline.
About this task
The example application uses the supplied SOAP 1.1 handler to deal with the SOAP envelopes of inbound and outbound requests. CICS® provides sample pipeline configuration files, which you can use in your service provider and service requester.
More than one web service can share a single pipeline, therefore you need define only one pipeline for the inbound requests of the example application. You must, however, define a second pipeline for the outbound requests because a single pipeline cannot be configured to be both a provider and requester pipeline at the same time.
If you want to use Java-based pipelines, you must specify the sample service provider configuration file basicsoap11javaprovider.xml instead of basicsoap11provider.xml in step 1b. And specify the sample service requester configuration file basicsoap11javarequester.xml instead of basicsoap11requester.xml in step 2b. For more information about sample configuration files, see Pipeline configuration files. Also, if you want to use the Axis2 application handler in your Java-based pipeline, you must replace EXPIPE01 with EXPIPE03 in step 1a and EXPIPE02 with EXPIPE04 in step 2a