Services

In Sybase WorkSpace, a service is an interface to an external application or a business process. BSM (Sybase Base Service Model) is the native language used to describe a service. The BSM file contains the description of the entire Web service expressed by several port types. Each port type defines different operations. Sybase WorkSpace Business Process supports the following types of Web service operations:

OneWay receive operations with only input parameters and no return value
RequestReply operations with input and output parameters

You design a Sybase WorkSpace Business Process service, port type and operation in the following way:

Sybase WorkSpace Business Process concept	PowerDesigner concept
Service	Service provider
Port type	Interface
Operation	Operation

Furthermore, PowerDesigner allows you to perform the following:

Import WSDL files for importing existing SOAP Web services.
Generate SOAP files in the WorkSpace environment from the imported WSDL files.
Create new empty services to be implemented in WorkSpace with specialized editors.