NonStop SOAP User's Manual

Introduction to NonStop SOAP
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Architectural Overview
executable can run from the command line or as a Pathway_CGI server class
in the iTP WebServer environment.
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An HTML client, including client-side JavaScript, and XML files containing
empty requests, for use in prototyping.
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WSDL (Web Services Description Language) and schema files for each
service in the SDL. WSDL is an XML-based language that captures the
mechanical information a client needs to access a web service: definitions of
message formats, SOAP details, and a destination URL. WSDL provides a
simple way for service providers to describe the basic format of requests to
their systems regardless of the underlying protocol (such as Simple Object
Access Protocol or XML). WSDL is a W3C standard and the specification is
available at http://www.w3.org/TR/WSDL.html.
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Request and response files for each service in the SDL.
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Source and header files for each service with user-exits.
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Customizable SOAP server code using user-exits.
The SOAP Admin tool requires:
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NonStop operating system (G06.20 and later RVUs, or H06.03 and later RVUs)
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OSS (T8620) installed and running
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NonStop XML parser version 5.0 installed. You can use either NonStop XML parser
or NonStop XML parser with IEEE support.
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DDL (T9100D40) for accessing TS/MP services
Architectural Overview
NonStop SOAP includes design-time and run-time components.
Design-Time Architecture
NonStop SOAP provides a design-time component called the SOAP Admin tool. The
SOAP Admin helps manage the SDR.
SOAP Admin performs these steps:
1. Reads the SDL input file that describes the target services, and uses the NonStop
XML parser to parse that file. If the input does not conform to the SDL
specification, the SOAP Admin tool raises an exception and displays an error
message.