Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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- SOAP API
- Web Services description language (WSDL)
- Consuming a Service Manager Web Service
- Dynamic and static Web Services clients
- Updating Service Manager tables
- Requirements for developing custom Web Services clients
- Checklist: Creating a custom Web Services client
- Sample Web Services client for sc62server PWS URL
- Command line arguments for the .NET sample application
- Command line arguments for the Axis sample application
- Using query syntax
- Retrieving data from Service Manager
- Example: Retreiving data from Service Manager via a Web Service
- Retrieving data from Service Manager using Pagination
- Retrieve data from Service Manager for Optimistic Locking
- Web Services examples in the RUN directory
- Special considerations for using Keep-Alive with Service Manager
- Use SSL to consume Service Manager Web Services
- Attachment handling
- Consume an external Web Service
Consuming a Service Manager Web Service
A Service Manager Web service can be consumed by a custom client or by an application that directly consumes Web Services, such as Service Manager or Connect-It.
General Information
A Web Service development tool kit that can generate a complete Web service application from a .wsdl file is required to create a custom client that can access the Service Manager Web service. A good understanding of Web Services and SOAP versions 1.1 or 1.2 is also recommended.
Note Service Manager users and application designers can choose any third-party Web Services development tool kit. However, Service Manager publishes only the WSDL files for the Web Service. Troubleshooting the client application is the responsibility of the application developer, and outside the scope of Service Manager Customer Support.
Use the steps below as a guide to create your custom Web Service client.
- Publish the Service Manager tables that you want your client to access. You can use the Service Manager Web Services out-of-the-box or customize the extaccess records to meet your needs.
- Obtain a Web Services client development tool that can create a complete Web Service application, such as Microsoft .NET or Apache Axis, or obtain a tool that generates a complete Web Service application by evaluating the target WSDL file.
- Browse to the URL of your Service Manager server and download the WSDL files for the services you want your custom clients to use. Use your Web Services client development tool to browse the WSDL and determine which features you want your custom client to use. The URL of your server must include the port and the Web service name.
For example:
http://<Service Manager server>:<httpPort (use a dedicated port, do not use loadBalancer port)>/SM/7/PWS/IncidentManagement.wsdl connects to the Service Manager server host on the specified port and requests the IncidentManagement WSDL. - Use your Web Services client development tool to generate the programming language client code (classes) that will invoke the Service Manager Web services. Tools such as .NET wsdl.exe or Axis wsdl2java generate client code that can be used to invoke the Service Manager Web service from the WSDL. Your custom Web Services client invokes the client code rather than the WSDL directly.
- Write a client application in the appropriate language of your client development tool. For example, .NET requires either Microsoft Visual C# or Visual Basic®, and Axis requires Java.
