PeopleSoft Web Services – Consume Web Service

Web services is a collection of programming techniques including SOAP, WSDL and XML. They are platform indepent. Web services in PeopleSoft gives you the ability to expose PeopleSoft functions and methods to the outside world over HTTP. It also allows PeopleSoft to use Web services made available by different systems. These are easily accessible via standard HTTP and HTTPS protocols.

While browsing through various sites to find some information on IB, I found the following executable.
It is a nice tutorial on how to do basic setup for Integration Broker.

Just open the following link , save the exe and run it.

http://blogs.oracle.com/peopletools/gems/ibsetupws.exe

Before start using PeopleSoft Integration Broker for sending and receiving services, you need to be familiar with the terminology used for Web services. In this post, I will try to list and describe common terms used for Web services.

Extensible Markup Language (XML): XML is a text-based format that provides a mechanism to describe document structures using markup tags. It allows developers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.

I'm not an expert on Web Services. This is just an attempt to provide a basic, simple introduction for CompShack visitors. Please feel free to comment or suggest any additions to the topic.

What is a Web Service?
From how I understand it, a Web Service is a set of technologies based on a set of standards to build applications that can "talk" to each other. In other words, Web Service is an application that exists over the web.