Access to services

The Web Services consumer learns what interfaces it can call by requesting the Web Service Definition Language or (WSDL) for the resource it wishes to access from the SOA Gateway.

It learns from this what requests it can make against the data source. Typically, when communicating with a legacy database, it is possible to do the following with the data on the database:

• List
• Add
• Delete
• Get
• Update

When accessing business logic, a single process method enables C, Natural, COBOL, PL/1 and even assembler programs to be invoked.

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