In EAServer 4.1, you can optionally install the Web Services Toolkit, which provides support for industry-standard Web services protocols such as Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), Web Services Description Language (WSDL), and Uniform Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI). SOAP provides a standard protocol for component invocations over HTTP connections, for example, you can expose a purchasing component to be called by business partners as a Web service. WSDL describes the service and can be used in client applications. You can also publish business and service information to a UDDI registry site on the Web and make your web service available to other users. SOAP provides a platform and language neutral means of accessing these services. With SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI, collaboration between business partners is made easier because interfaces between applications become standardized across disparate platforms.
The Web Services toolkit provides a Web application to run SOAP services, and graphical user interfaces to configure the SOAP services, create WSDL documents, and register services in UDDI registries.
For more information on these features, see the Web Services Toolkit User’s Guide.
