Creating web services
You can create a web service so that users can access Collaboration Server system data from an external application. For example, you can create a web service to search for items in a specific catalog.
Within IBM® InfoSphere® Master Data Management Collaboration Server, there is an axis-based web service component. You can create web services and deploy to the InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server web application by using UI, scripts, and Java™ code.
Attention: InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server is
compliant with Apache Axis 1.4 standard only and might not support
systems using a different standard.
You can also use InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server as a Java library to develop your own web service, package the server into your own enterprise system, and deploy the server to your own enterprise application server. Refer to Web services outside of InfoSphere MDM Collaboration Server.
The following table provides a list of references that are related
to web services.
| Concept | Available information | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Web services | Wikipedia entry | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_services |
| Web services | Latest news from W3C | http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/Activity |
| Apache Axis | Various beginner guides and reference documents | http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/index.html |
| Apache Axis | User Guide | http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html |
| Apache Axis | FAQ | http://wiki.apache.org/ws/FrontPage/Axis |
| Axis (De)Serializers | Reference class list | http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/apiDocs/org/apache/axis/encoding/ser/package-summary.html |
| WSDL2Java/Java2WSDL | Tool references | http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/reference.html |
| WSDD | Explanation and details | http://ws.apache.org/axis/java/user-guide.html |
| WSDL | Official W3C specification and guide | http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl |
| SOAP | Official W3C specification and guide | http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/ |
| java.util.Date | Information about using dates in web services | http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/ws-tip-roundtrip1.html |