NonStop SOAP 4.1 User's Manual

Phase A Phase is a stage of processing or a time interval in the message process. A collection of phases
forms a Flow.
process A running entity that is managed by the operating system, as opposed to a program, which is a
collection of code and data. When a program is taken from a file on a disk and run in a processor,
the running entity is called a process.
R
request message
buffer
A character buffer created by the NonStop SOAP 4 server to be sent to the Pathway application
or NonStop process.
response message
buffer
A character buffer received by the NonStop SOAP 4 server from the Pathway application or
NonStop process.
response selection
criteria
NonStop SOAP 4 facilitates multiple non-fault response structures for a single request. To select
which response structure must be selected the NonStop SOAP 4 server uses the response buffer
value based on the values mentioned in the services.xml file, and generate a proper SOAP
response. The values that are stored in the services.xml file like StartIndex, EndIndex, BufVal,
ComparisionOp, ConversionOp, FaultResponse, and DefaultResponse are collectively known as
the response selection criteria.
root directory An OSS directory associated with a process that the system uses for pathname resolution when
a pathname begins with a slash (/) character. See also OSS pathname.
S
SDL Service Definition Language.
SDR Service Definition Repository.
server A process or set of processes that satisfy requests from Web clients in a clientserver environment.
server class A set of duplicate copies of a single server process, all of which execute the same object program.
Server classes are configured through the PATHMON process or the PXMCFG utility.
SERVERCLASS_SEND The procedure call used to send a request to a TS/MP server class, defined as part of the TS/MP
Pathsend facility.
Service Artifacts The files generated by the SoapAdminCL tool while deploying a service.
Service Context The Service Context holds all the operation contexts that are created, invoking the operations
within that service.
Service skeleton
files
These files are template files, generated using the WSDL2PWY tool, to design the Pathway server
class.
service-first
development
An application developmentt approach, where the development of the service starts from a code.
The service code is written without the WSDL and the business logic is written later. This approach
is also commonly known as the Code-First approach.
session A logical grouping of a requests used for to permit transaction control and to support access to
context-sensitive classes.
session context Information a SOAP server maintains to represent a session.
session ID A handle used by the SOAP client and server to relate requests and responses to a session context.
Simple Object
Access Protocol
(SOAP)
SOAP is a simple XML-based protocol that enables applications to exchange information over
HTTP.
SOAP See Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
SOAP server A process that converts a SOAP or XML request into the format required by an external service,
and converts the reply from the external service into SOAP or XML.
soft link This is a type of file that contains a reference to another file or directory in the form of an absolute
or relative path and affects pathname resolution.
subsession A series of interactions between a client and a SOAP server, corresponding to dialog between
a SOAP server and a context-sensitive TS/MP server class or NonStop process. A session can
include a series of subsessions, each with a different target server class.
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