Working with Web Services

This section describes the use and configuration of the InfoSphere® MDM Web Services.

The InfoSphere MDM Web Services feature exposes InfoSphere MDM functions through WS-I Basic Profile 1.2 compliant Web Services. This is important in a diverse enterprise IT landscape because it allows for improved interoperability with other applications. In addition to that benefit, the extensive tools support for Web Services allows developers to generate client code for a large number of platforms and languages based on the WSDL files that describe the Web Services.

The Web Services offering also includes a REST implementation to enable communication with the physical MDM service request controller using HTTP operations.