This chapter describes Web services, their uses, and how to create, implement, and publish Siebel Web services. This chapter also provides examples of how to invoke an external Web service and a Siebel Web service. The following topics are included:

• About Web Services
• About RPC-Literal and DOC-Literal Bindings
• About One-Way Operations and Web Services
• Invoking Siebel Web Services Using an External System
• Consuming External Web Services Using Siebel Web Services
• Using the Local Business Service
• About XML Schema Support for the xsd:any Tag
• Examples of Invoking Web Services
• About Web Services Security Support
• About Siebel Authentication and Session Management SOAP Headers
• About Web Services and Web Single Sign-On Authentication
• About SOAP Fault Schema Support
• About Custom SOAP Filters
• About EAI File Streaming
• About Web Services Cache Refresh
• Enabling Web Services Tracing