Developing Mashup Service applications using the SOAP interface

You can develop IBM® Cognos® Mashup Service applications that use a simple object access protocol (SOAP) interface in which SOAP messages are used to transmit requests and responses between client applications and the IBM Cognos Analytics server. This interface provides an object-oriented model that is easily integrated into Java™^TM or .NET applications.

Creating a Mashup Service application includes the following steps common to all applications.

• Setting up the integrated development environment (IDE)
• Logging on and logging off
• Creating a report service instance
• Running Mashup Service methods
• Retrieving report data
• Handling exceptions

Additional topics are covered in Performing additional tasks using the Mashup Service.