• Web services Guide
• Preface
• Notices
  • Trademarks
• About this book
  • Who this book is for
  • What’s new?
    • VAST Platform 2022 (version 11.0.0)
  • Conventions used in this book
  • Tell us what you think
• Understanding Web services
  • Web services
  • Technologies Used
• Getting Started: Web services in 10 Minutes
  • Installing the Web services Feature
  • Creating a simple web service
  • Creating a Web service
  • Local Deployment
  • Remote Deployment
• Getting Started: Web services in an Hour
  • Creating a Web service
  • Deploying a Web service
    • Web Services Container
      • Example
  • Invoking a Web service
    • Explanation
    • Example Smalltalk Service
    • Invoking a third party service
• Getting Started: Web services in a Day
  • Using Document Literal Style
    • Creating a Web Service
      • XML File Generation
    • Deploying the Web Service In the Server Image
    • Invoking the Web Service from a Client Image
    • Summary
  • Using RPC Literal Style
  • Using RPC Encoded Style
  • Using RPC Encoded Style
  • Exchanging Complex Data in A Web Service
    • Creating the Web Service
      • XML File Generation
      • Modifications to XML files
        • Modification of the web service deployment descriptor
        • Modifying the Web Service Location
        • Refining Web Service Type Definitions
    • Deploying the Server Web Service
    • Invoking the Web Service
    • Summary
  • Using A Custom Handler in a Web Service with Complex Data Types
    • Creating The Web Service
      • Modifications to XML files
        • Modification of the web service deployment descriptor
        • Modifying the Web Service Location
        • Refining Web Service Type Definitions
    • Deploying the Server Web Service
    • Invoking a Web Service
    • Summary
• User Guide
  • Web services Platform Overview
    • Web services: All objects, all the time
    • Location Transparency
    • Smalltalk Language Semantics
    • Overview of the Web Services Container
  • Detailed Component Architecture & Advanced Concepts
    • The Container Framework
      • Working with a Container
      • Managers and Factories
      • Deployment Manager
        • Deployment Strategies
        • Message Context Factory
        • Handler Factory
      • The Manager Collection
        • WSActorManager
        • WSEngineFactory
        • WSPortManager
        • WSSerializationManager
        • WSServiceDefinitionsManager
        • WSServiceManager
    • Web Service Handlers and Message Processing
      • Web Service Message Processing Handlers
      • Transport Handlers
      • Serialization Handlers
      • Message Processing
      • Message Processing, A Sever Perspective
      • Soap Headers
      • Message Processing, A Client Perspective
      • Exception Processing
        • Custom Exception Processing
        • Errors During Exception Processing
      • Adding headers to extend message behavior
      • Modify WSDL to include header extension information
      • Add header elements using custom Web service handlers
      • Deployment Descriptors
      • Container Specific Deployment Information
      • Service Specific Deployment Information
      • Service Undeployment
    • Packaging a Web service
      • Building a Web services platform
      • Building a service image component
      • Packaging Web services clients
      • Packaging the Web services platform from an XD passive image
      • Packaging the Web services insurance example as a reusable image component (XD passive image)
      • Reduced runtime packaging
      • Runtime considerations
    • Deploying packaged Web services
      • System files
      • User files
      • Creating runtime deployment descriptor files
      • Modifying the .ini file for the Web services platform image
      • Starting the Web services platform
    • Processing Web Services Which use Soap 1.2 Extensions
    • Extending/ Customizing the Web service platform
      • Customizing SstWSService
      • Customizing the Container
      • Extending the container
      • Extending the deployment manager
      • Custom service handlers
      • Customizing serialization
      • Customizing deserialization (parsing)
      • Customizing encoding strategy
    • Samples
      • Insurance example
      • Modifying deployment files to customize service behavior
      • Renaming WSDL operations and messages
      • Defining custom schema types
      • Specifying types for WSDL messages
      • Specifying correct endpoint
      • Customizing the service deployment descriptor
      • The service description definition
      • Running the example
      • Starting the container
      • Creating the client container
      • Invoking an operation
      • Invoking a series of operations
      • Using SOAP arrays
      • Using WSDL to process SOAP Headers
      • Using custom handlers to process SOAP headers
      • Summary
      • Container Administration service
• Cookbook
  • Debugging Tips
    • Turning Off Exception Handling and Forwarding
    • Inspect Request/Response SOAP Envelopes during Client Web Service Invocation
    • Inspect Request/Response SOAP Envelopes during Server Request/Response Processing
    • Enable signaling of Mapping Parser Exceptions
    • Reset the Web Services Development Environment
  • How to Send a SOAP Response Using the SstHttpServer Example
  • Using Breakpoints
    • The SOAP envelope request
      • Where to stop in client
        • Calling getInfoForPolicy
        • Calling getInfoForPolicyWithVerification
      • Where to stop in server
        • Calling the web service operation
    • Deconstructing the SOAP envelope request
      • Server side deconstruction of request envelope
    • Construction of SOAP envelope response
      • Where to stop in client
        • Calling getInfoForPolicy
        • Calling getInfoForPolicyWithVerification
  • Deserializing XML data
    • Executing the Example Code
    • The Data
      • Smalltalk classes
      • XML Data
        • XML Dataset 1
        • XML Dataset 2
    • Dataset 1 Deserialization
      • Conversion without a Mapping Spec or Schema
      • Conversion Using a Mapping Spec
      • Conversion Using a Schema and a Mapping Spec
    • Dataset 2 Deserialization
      • Conversion without a Mapping Spec or Schema
      • Conversion Using a Mapping Spec
      • Conversion Using a Schema and a Mapping Spec
    • Summary
  • Creating a Secure Web Service
    • Modifications for Security
      • Security Files
      • Modification to WSDL
      • Modifications to the Transport Layer
        • Server
        • Client
    • Deploying the Web Service
    • Invoking the Web Service
    • Summary
  • How to Make Web Service Requests That Affect A User Interface
  • How to Create and Register A Custom SstTransport for A Secure Web Service
• Troubleshooting
  • WSDL and imported schemas using the document/literal or document/literal wrapped pattern are not serialized properly
    • Problem
    • Solution
  • An Element with a ref attribute referring to another namespace was serialized incorrectly in the SOAP Envelope
    • Problem
    • Solution
• Appendix A: Insurance Policy Example Workspace Code
  • XML and WSDL File Generation
  • Server Workspace Code
  • Client Workspace Code
  • Client Workspace Code: Policy Verification

Web services Guide

Client Workspace Code: Policy Verification