PAPI Web Service was completely rewritten based on the feedback obtained from its previous version. This section describes the features supported by PAPI Web Service 2.0.
| PAPI Web Service 2.0 | PAPI Web Service 1.0 |
|---|---|
| Independent web application. | Bundled with ALBPM Workspace. |
| You can modify its default configuration. | Supports only the default configuration. |
| Document/literal wrapped style WSDL SOAP binding. | RPC/encoded style WSDL SOAP binding. |
| Supports WS Security Username Token Profile 1.1, HTTP Basic and Single Sign On (SSO) authentication mechanisms. | Does not support any standard authentication mechanisms.You need to send a session ID every time you invoke an operation. |
| Method arguments support calogued schema type objects in addition to primitive types. | Method arguments only support primitive types. |
| The signature of the exposed methods matches the signature of their equivalent methods in PAPI. | Its semantics are completely different from PAPI's semantics. |