Web services

External systems can use integration framework web services to send messages or queries to the Maximo® database. You can use an integration framework service as the source for a web service and then deploy this service to communicate with external systems.

The web services are based on the Java™ API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS). In earlier releases, the integration framework also supported AXIS2 web services but these web services are no longer supported. During an upgrade, any existing AXIS2 web services are automatically converted to JAX-WS web services.

In the WebSphere® Application Server Liberty environment, you can use Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) 1.1 and SOAP 1.2 with the JAX-WS as a transport protocol in the same web service instance.