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Product Data Services API Architecture

The Product Data Service API is provided as Siebel business services and workflows inside the Siebel application. The Siebel Web Services Framework can consume a WSDL document and create a proxy business service to publish Siebel business services and workflows as Web Services. Once published as Web Services, all the external applications will be able to access these product selection APIs through supported protocols (HTTP, MQ, and so on) by exchanging XML messages.

Within the Siebel application, the Data Services API includes the following:

• Data Services API Methods. These methods allow you to access Siebel Data, such as Catalog, Categories, Products, Product Details, Favorites, Quote, and Order. They are based on the core Data Sync service (CSSEAIDataSyncService).
• Workflows. Workflows use these methods to add an asset to a quote or order, modify or disconnect asset from quote or order, and get projected assets without any use of the user interface.

This architecture is shown in Figure 56.

Figure 56. Data Service API Architecture