Webservice Development

[Former Member]

I want to learn about whats a Webservice in layman Term? (I understand that as an SAP RFC call)

How to develop a Webservice?

If there is a blog that narrates how to interact with a webservice using XI from a File system?

(Sorry, if this question is not intended for this Forum)

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Rohini,

Go to /people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/09/03/invoke-webservices-using-sapxi

-Naveen.

[moorthy]

<i>A Web service is any piece of software that makes itself available over the Internet and uses a standardized XML messaging system.</i>

In simpler terms, it is an Application which is over the internet. And it is described based on the WSDL format.

/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/09/03/invoke-webservices-using-sapxi

/people/siva.maranani/blog/2005/03/01/testing-xi-exposed-web-services

HowtoWrite a Webservice~-

Regards,

Moorthy

Message was edited by: Krishna Moorthy P

[Former Member]

Krishna, I am still not clear with what a webservice is? When do you need a Webservice? Any simple example for a Webservice will be easy for me to understand the concept

[moorthy]

Hi,

For e.g you have a Credit Card Application in the net. Whenever user gives his/her informations like UserId/password etc it should be authenticated. For e,g for this Application it should pull the master data from SAP.. So here your application is in internet as an exposed as a Webservice.

Regards,

Moorthy

[Former Member]

Rohini,

Go through this,

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_erp2004/helpdata/en/31/daa0404dd52b54e10000000a1550b0/content.htm

-Naveen