The ASE Web Services Engine acts as a consumer of Web services by enabling Adaptive Server Enterprise to access and execute Web methods. A Web method is made accessible by mapping it to an Adaptive Server Enterprise proxy table using information provided in the WSDL file for the Web method. A Web method can then be invoked with a select on the proxy table.
Figure 2-4: Accessing remote Web services
The Web service accessed may reside within or beyond
a firewall.
