9/12/2006 TPTF MIS: Web Services 101 Pat Harris A portal is a web site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services such as , applications,, search engines, tools, and on-line reference material. TPTF 10/24/2006

Lead from the Front 9/12/2006 Overview Service Oriented Architecture Data is enclosed in a ‘definitions’ envelope A published URL for the Web Service Director Contains a definition of the data being sent or received

Lead from the Front 9/12/2006 Web Services Basics SOAP – Defines the format XML – text-based, is the fundamental element Directory – list of available ‘services’ (data types, or definitions of what data is available as defined) WSDL – Describes the web service itself HTTPS – Already in place, the standard ‘highway’ for secure data transmission

Lead from the Front 9/12/2006 What are we trying to solve? Screen Scraping! And the need for it Time required to respond to changing data / business need Flexibility in interfaces

Lead from the Front 9/12/2006 FAQs 1.Available tools 2.Applications that will use Web Services 3.Other options for data transfer