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Chapter 8 - Web Services Web Services Architecture
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Consumer Architecture
For design time purposes, the WSDL Importer generates type trees from WSDL
files.
Type
Designer
WSDL
Importer
WSDL file
Type tree
For run time purposes, the SOAP adapter is used to invoke the web service by
sending a request message and processing the response. Note that two adapters
are used in communicating between the map and the web service: the SOAP
adapter and the HTTP adapter. The following diagram demonstrates the flow of
the request from the map, through the SOAP and HTTP adapters to the web
service, and the flow of the response back to the map from the web service.
Map
SOAP
Adapter
HTTP
Adapter
Web
Services
Because the map sends and receives SOAP messages over the Web, it is
considered a consumer of a Web service.