Developing and Deploying IBM Data Web Services (DB2) - IBM Database Add-Ins for Visual Studio

With the IBM^® Database Add-Ins for Visual Studio, you can create Web services that expose database operations (SQL SELECT and DML statements, XQuery expressions, or calls to procedures and functions) to client applications.

This section provides conceptual information and instructions for using the add-ins to create and deploy IBM data Web services.

In this section:

IBM Data Web Services: Conceptual information about IBM data Web services.
Supported Web Servers, SOAP Engines, and Databases: Information regarding the Web servers to which you can deploy Web services, the SOAP engines that you can use, and the IBM databases that IBM data Web services can access.
Supported Message Protocols: Information regarding the messages that client applications can send to access IBM data Web services.
Support for DB2 XML Data Type in IBM Data Web Service Operations: Information that describes how operations in data Web services can refer to DB2^® columns that use the XML data type.
Mapping of SQL and JDBC Data Types to XML Data Types: Information that shows the default mappings from SQL and JDBC data types to XML data types.
Configuring Web Server Connections: Instructions for configuring a local Web server that you can deploy IBM data Web services to.
Creating and Deploying IBM Data Web Services: Instructions for creating an IBM data Web service and deploying it to a local Web server.
Changing IBM Data Web Service Definitions: Instructions for modifying the information for an IBM Data Web service and deploying it to a different server.
Adding Operations to IBM Data Web Services: Instructions for adding an operation to an IBM data Web service.
Changing IBM Data Web Service Operations: Instructions for modifying the information for an existing IBM data Web service operation.
Running IBM Data Web Services: Instructions for invoking an operation of an IBM data Web service.
Deleting IBM Data Web Services: Instructions for deleting an IBM data Web service from an IBM database.