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About Establishing and Managing the Web Services Session

A Web services-enabled client (that is, a client written in any language that interacts with the Web services framework), must establish a secure session with Oracle CRM On Demand. After authentication, the client interacts with the published Oracle CRM On Demand Web Services to perform data retrieval, modification, creation, and deletion operations. Oracle CRM On Demand and the client format requests and resulting data as standard XML/SOAP messages.

There are multiple methods by which client applications can establish authenticated sessions with Oracle CRM On Demand. These sessions can be managed either by the client application or by the Oracle CRM On Demand server based on the login mechanism used to establish the session.