PI conceptual question

[Former Member]

Good afternoon:

We are currenlty moving into SOA and we'd like to use Netweaver as our ESB but I have a conceptual question right now:

- If my applications consume the web services provided or registered in the Services Registry, will I be using the Process Integrator implicitly??

We want to register web services and use the web services registered in the Services Registry of Netweaver, but licensing for the PI es really expensive...

Thanks for any hints...

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2 · Accepted solution]

> If my applications consume the web services provided or registered in the Services Registry, will I be using the Process Integrator implicitly??

Yes, To consume or host webservice we can use PI middleware. PI supports also service registry to register your webservice for others.

>> We want to register web services and use the web services registered in the Services Registry of Netweaver, but licensing for the PI es really expensive...

PI 7.3 has plenty of cool features and it is claimed as SOA Middleware. Comparitively PI licensing cost is better than competitors too.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Baskar:

Thanks a lot for the quick reply, but I still have some doubts:

- So, when using the services registry (consuming a web service or registering a new web service into it) will I be using the PI anyway?

- As I wrote before, the PI licensing is really expensive, so we would like to know if we really have to buy the PI licenses.

Thanks again!

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2 · Accepted solution]

>> - So, when using the services registry (consuming a web service or registering a new web service into it) will I be using the PI anyway?

Yes, You will Use PI.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Thanks Baskar for making it clear.