Creating web services
You can create a web service so that users can access Product Master 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® Product Master, there is an axis-based web
service component. You can create web services and deploy to the Product Master web application by using UI, scripts, and Java™ code.
Attention: Product Master is compliant with Apache Axis 1.4 standard
only and might not support systems using a different standard.
You can also use Product Master 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. See Web services outside of Product Master. The following table provides a list of references that are
related to web services.
| Concept | Link |
|---|---|
| Web services | Wikipedia entry |
| Latest news from W3C | |
| Apache Axis | Various beginner guides and reference documents |
| User guide | |
| Axis (De)Serializers | Reference class list |
| WSDL2Java/Java2WSDL | Tool references |
| WSDD | Explanation and details |
| WSDL | Official W3C specification and guide |
| SOAP | Official W3C specification and guide |
| java.util.Date | Information about using dates in web services |