About SOAP Web Services in Oracle Applications Cloud
Use Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) web services to integrate different applications within the enterprise or expose business functions to Oracle Cloud partners and customers.
Here are the two categories of SOAP web services in Oracle Applications Cloud.
| Categories | What You Use It For |
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| Business Object Services | Work with business objects, such as an opportunity or a marketing campaign. You can perform the standard CRUD operations to create or modify the exposed business objects. These services are implemented using the Application Development Framework (ADF). |
| Process Services | Manage business processes that are not centered around any particular business object. These services are typically implemented using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) composites. |
SOAP web services are based on these industry standards.
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Extensible Markup Language (XML): A data format that allows uniform communication between web services consumers and web services providers.
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XML Schema: A framework that describes XML vocabulary used in business transactions.
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Simple Object Access Protocol: A protocol for exchanging structured information in the implementation of web services.
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Web Services Description Language (WSDL): An XML-based language that provides a model for describing SOAP-based web services.
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WS-Policy: A flexible and extensible grammar framework that describes the capabilities, requirements, and general characteristics of web services using the policies.
Access to Web Services
Topics containing details about the web services and supported operations might provide additional information about the privileges required to run them. Make sure that the users are assigned a custom role, optionally based on a predefined role, and that the custom role contains the appropriate privileges.
For details about roles and privileges that are common across Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications, see Security Reference for Common Features. For details about roles and privileges specific to your product area, see your product-specific Security Reference guide.