Adaptive Server Enterprise Web Services consists of two components: a Web Services Producer and a Web Services Consumer. Both components run independently of Adaptive Server and are enabled by the same license, ASE_WEBSERVICES.
The Web Services Producer component allows client applications to access SQL and stored procedures in Adaptive Server using SOAP.
For example, if a user-written application needs to access Adaptive Server through a firewall, that application can use the Web Services Producer to access Transact-SQL over the Internet using HTTP/HTTPS and SOAP.
For more information on the Web Services Producer, see Chapter 2, “Understanding the Web Services Producer” in the Web Services User’s Guide.
The Web Services Consumer component is new for Adaptive Server 12.5.2. The Web Services Consumer component enables Adaptive Server to access the Web services of other applications by mapping these external Web services to an Adaptive Server proxy table at runtime.
For example, a user may need to integrate data from a Web service and relational data in Adaptive Server. The Web Services Consumer provides a way to dynamically map a Web service to a proxy table and also to map Web service output to a result set in Adaptive Server. Using this functionality, the user can retrieve and manipulate Web service output using T-SQL in a stored procedure, trigger, or view.
For more information on the Web Services Consumer, see Chapter 3, “Understanding the Web Services Consumer” in the Web Services User’s Guide.
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