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Types of Web Services

Oracle Billing Insight uses the following types of Web services:

• Transactional data access services. Transactional data access services provide access to Oracle Billing Insight business objects and provide Create, Read, Update, and Delete (CRUD) operations to these objects. A list of these types of Web services can be is in rsclient, which is a Web-service test-harness application provided to help you find services. The Web service information in the rsclient test-harness application includes the name of the service, input, and output.
• Analytics report services. Analytics report services generate analytics reports from Oracle Billing Insight for various business needs. These services provide read-only operations. You can extend these services to retrieve additional information from Oracle Billing Insight by using the report XML file configuration.