NonStop SOAP User's Manual

NonStop SOAP User’s Manual—520501-012
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About This Manual
This manual describes NonStop SOAP, a product that runs on an HP NonStop S- series
system or HP Integrity NonStop NS-series system and allows you to use XML or SOAP
clients for access to TS/MP services and NonStop processes.
This manual is intended for customers who wish to expose their TS/MP applications or
NonStop processes as Web services.
This manual has these sections:
The manual also includes a glossary and an index.
Prerequisites
To use this manual and the NonStop SOAP products successfully, you should be
familiar with certain other technologies and products.
Underlying Technologies
These technologies are used with NonStop SOAP and are described in specifications
available online:
Section Description
Section 1, Introduction to NonStop
SOAP,
Describes the features and architecture of
NonStop SOAP and lists the tasks you
must perform to use this product.
Section 2, Installing NonStop SOAP, Explains how to install the software from
the compact disc (CD) using the IPSetup
program.
Section 3, The Service Description
Language (SDL),
Lists the Document Type Definition (DTD)
used to validate descriptions of services
accessible to SOAP or XML clients.
Section 4, NonStop SOAP Features
and Functions,
Describes session and transaction control,
internationalization, dynamic refresh,
exposing a subset of DDL as a Web
service, and many other features common
to NonStop SOAP servers.
Section 5, Using the SOAP Admin
Too l,
Describes how to use the SOAP Admin tool
to manage the SDR.
Section 6, Using NonStop SOAP with
a TS/MP Application and NonStop
Processes,
Describes the tasks involved in providing
for SOAP or XML access to TS/MP
services and NonStop processes.
Section 8, Customizing the SOAP
Server,
Provides information about customizing the
SOAP classes using user-exits and building
the server process.