About This Book

This book describes, to programmers, how to create web services and web clients. It includes the following sections:

• Introduction to Web Services and Web Clients in InterSystems IRIS®

• Creating Web Services

• SOAP Message Variations

• Creating Web Clients

• SOAP Fault Handling

• Using MTOM for Attachments

• Using SOAP with Attachments

• Adding and Using Custom Header Elements

• Adding and Using WS-Addressing Header Elements

• SOAP Session Management

• Using the InterSystems IRIS Binary SOAP Format

• Using Datasets in SOAP Messages

• Fine-Tuning a Web Service in InterSystems IRIS

• Fine-Tuning a Web Client in InterSystems IRIS

• Troubleshooting SOAP Problems in InterSystems IRIS

• Summary of Web Service URLs

• Details of the Generated WSDLs

• Details of the Generated Classes

For a detailed outline, see the table of contents.

For more information, try the following sources:

• Securing Web Services describes how to add security elements to InterSystems IRIS web services and web clients.

• Creating Web Services and Web Clients in Productions describes how to add web services and web clients to a production, using them as business hosts.

• Projecting Objects to XML describes how to project InterSystems IRIS objects to XML and how to control that projection.

• Using XML Tools describes how to use InterSystems IRIS tools to work with XML-enabled objects and with general XML documents and DOMs (Document Object Model).

• Using Internet Utilities includes information on using HTTP responses.