About One-Way Operations and Web Services

One-Way operations provide a means of sending a request to a Web service with the expectation that a SOAP response will not be returned. The Siebel application provides the ability to publish and consume Web services that implement one-way operations.

One-way operations come into play in both inbound and outbound scenarios:

• Inbound. If the Business Service Workflow method does not have any output arguments, then it is a one-way operation.

• Outbound. If the service proxy method has no output arguments, then it is a one-way operation.

Consider using one-way operations when data loss is tolerable. In cases involving one-way operations, you send a SOAP request and do not receive a SOAP response. The provider receives the SOAP request and processes it.

Note: It is important to note that SOAP faults, if any, are not returned as well.

Defining Support for One-Way Operations

For information on the Web services standards supported with Siebel CRM, see the Certifications tab on My Oracle Support.