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Web Services BASCIS

Web services allow applications hosted on different platforms to communicate. XML is used as the standard format for communication. A WSDL file describes the web service - it specifies the operations, input/output message formats, and protocol used. It acts as a contract for clients. The WSDL defines types using XSD, messages that reference the types, port types that define operations and messages used, bindings that specify protocols and styles, and services that provide endpoint URLs. The document includes an example requirement of a patient appointment booking service and lists the necessary schemas.

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Web Services BASCIS

Web services allow applications hosted on different platforms to communicate. XML is used as the standard format for communication. A WSDL file describes the web service - it specifies the operations, input/output message formats, and protocol used. It acts as a contract for clients. The WSDL defines types using XSD, messages that reference the types, port types that define operations and messages used, bindings that specify protocols and styles, and services that provide endpoint URLs. The document includes an example requirement of a patient appointment booking service and lists the necessary schemas.

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Web Services

How the application hosted on Microsoft server can talk to the


application hosted on Unix
How the .Net application can talk to java or php application
XML is the standard language , any programming language can
understand
Using web services, consumer can call the service and send the input
in XML format. web service responds to the call by sending response in
XML format as both consumer and sender can understand XML
How does the consumer know what the web service offers? What kind
of input the web service is expecting? Using What protocol (http,smtp)
consumer can call the web service?
WSDL(Web Service Description Language) is an XML document that
tells all the above things. We can think of it as a contract. If you want
to use my service ,you have to send the input in the format described
in WSDL.
Contents of WSDL
Types define all inputs and outputs either in the wsdl or in xsd.
Use of another XSD is preferred way. When you define in XSD,
you have to import the xsd in the types section so that the
elements defined in XSD are available in WSDL
Messages define input and output messages based on the
elements from XSD. Message has a child element called part
which has name and element. If an operation takes two
unrelated parameters, you have to define two part elements.
(More about style in binding)
PortType- specifies all the operations and input and output
messages for the operations. Can think of a Java class or PL/SQL
package which specifies all the methods.
Binding- specifies how the operations defined in PortType will
actually be transmitted over the wire i.e protocols(HTTP GET,
HTTP POST or SOAP).
<soap:binding style="document"
transport="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/http"/>
Style specifies how the inputs and outputs of an operation are
wrapped. When we use document style, all the input arguments should
be wrapped under one. There should be at most one part element
under message. When we specify rpc style we can have any number of
arguments. Message can have more than one part.

Service specifies the end point i.e the location where the service
is located.It is a Url.

1. Create a WSDL for the following requirement


Main Hospital wants to automate the patient appointment system. Small
clinics can use this service to take an appointment or to cancel or to find out
the status on behalf of their patients.
Service name PatientAppointmentService.which offers the following
operations
1. RegisterNewPatient : input:RegisterNewPatientRequest output:
RegisterNewPatientResponse. See List1 for the schema definition.
2. CancelAppointment: input:AppointmentCancellationRequest
output:AppointmentCacellationResponse. See List2 for the schema
definition
3. getAppointmentStatus: input:AppointmentStatusRequest
output:AppointmentStatusResponse. See List 3 for the schema.

List 1:

List 2:

List 3:

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