Overview of Web Services
Use web services to integrate web-based applications into your Oracle Applications Cloud. Web services expose business objects and processes to other applications using open standards-based technologies.
Web services support development environments and clients that comply with these open standards:
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Extensible Markup Language (XML)
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Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
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Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
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Web Services Description Language (WSDL)
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XML Schema Definitions (XSD)
Oracle Applications Cloud has these two types of web services:
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Application Development Framework (ADF) services
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Composite services
Let's look at the web service types in detail.
Web Service Type |
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ADF services |
ADF services usually represent business objects, such as employees or purchase orders. You can use these services to expose standard operations, such as create, update, and delete. However, for locally-persisted objects, ADF services aren't limited to these operations. Here are a few examples of ADF services and what they're used for:
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Composite services |
Composite services usually represent end-to-end business process flows that act on business events produced by the ADF services. You can use these services to manage multiple object-based services, rules services, and human workflows. Here are a few examples of composite services and what they're used for:
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For more information about web services, see the SOAP Web Services guide for your cloud services.