SOAP (Web Services and Clients)
Background Information
SOAP, originally called Simple Object Access Protocol, is a protocol specification for exchanging structured information between clients (called web clients) and services (called web services) over a network.
Available Tools
Enables you to create web services and web clients in Caché. Caché SOAP support includes the following items:
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Caché support for XML
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Other classes in the %SOAP package
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Caché support for SSL/TLS and X.509 certificates
For basic information on Caché web services and clients, see Creating Web Services and Web Clients in Caché and Securing Caché Web Services. For information on the supported standards, see “Standards Supported in Caché” in that book.
Also see Securing Caché Web Services. For information on supported security standards, see “Standards Supported in Caché” in that book.
Availability: All namespaces.
Enable you to create Ensemble web services (which are business services) and Ensemble web clients (which are business operations). Ensemble support for web services and clients is based directly on Caché SOAP support.
See Creating Web Services and Web Clients with Ensemble.
Availability: All Ensemble-enabled namespaces.
