Maintaining Inbound Web Services
Inbound Web Services are used to define a specific message that your implementation will receive from an external system and provides configuration needed to process the inbound message.
The product provides support for REST and SOAP services and provides several inbound web services out of the box.
For inbound SOAP web services, by default no annotations are defined for the base inbound web services. You may modify the message options or the annotations for any base IWS record. In addition, you may define additional IWS records for other incoming messages supported by your implementation.
To view an inbound web service, navigate using You are brought to a query portal with options for searching for inbound web services.
Once an inbound web service has been selected, you are brought to the maintenance portal to view and maintain the selected record.
The following zones may appear as part of the portal's Main tab page
- Inbound Web Service. This zone displays the configuration information for the record and its operations.
- Operations. This zone lists the operations defined for the selected inbound web service. The zone is only visible for a REST inbound web service. You may navigate to the Inbound Web Service Operation portal to further describe the operation’s web service schema.
- Help Text Fields. This zone maintains help text information for fields across all operations of the selected inbound web service. The zone is only visible for a REST inbound web service.
Refer to Inbound SOAP Web Services for specific information about Operations for SOAP records.
Refer to Inbound REST Web Services for specific information about Operations for REST records.
Note that in addition to standard actions available on this portal, there is also a special Add to Category button in the page action area. Click this button to link an inbound web service to one or more web service categories.