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Consuming External Web Services Using Siebel Web Services

An outbound Web service acts as a proxy to a Web service published by an external application. This process creates services that you can then use in a business process, virtual business component (VBC), run-time event, or any other mechanism within the Siebel application that can call a business service.

Consumption of external Web services is a two-step process:

• A WSDL file is imported using Siebel Tools.
• The consumed Web service is published for run-time clients to use.

Additional steps can involve defining VBCs based on the Web service.

The following outbound Web services topics are covered:

• Creating an Outbound Web Service Based on a WSDL File
• Creating an Outbound Web Service Manually
• Integration Objects as Input Arguments to Outbound Web Services
• Web Services Support for Transport Headers