Tutorial: CICS Web Service Provider from WSDL, Top-down Method

Walks you through the steps required to create a new CICS Web service provider application starting with an existing WSDL file. The resulting Web service uses the SOAP protocol.

In this tutorial, you use the top-down method to create a Web service provider that sends one or more character strings in the form of a SOAP request to a generated CICS application. The application reads and then reverses each string, and sends the reversed strings back to the Web service as a SOAP response message. To use the top-down method, you supply a WSDL file that describes the CICS application you want to access.

Prerequisite

Review the Assumptions and Before you begin a CICS Web services tutorial sections in the Tutorials: CICS Web Services topic to be sure you have your environment configured properly.

Sequence

To complete this tutorial, progress through these topics in the order presented here. The bottom of each topic provides Next topic and Previous topic navigational links to help you proceed in the proper sequence:

  1. Set Up the Reverse Project
    Guides you through the process of creating the Reverse project from the CICS Web services project template.
  2. Generate Reverse Web Service Provider Components
    Provides step-by-step instructions to generate CICS Web service provider components from the Reverse project, and describes each output component. It also provides instructions for separately generating a WSBIND file.
  3. Add Operation Logic to reverse.cbl
    Guides you through the process of adding logic to the Reverse application that performs the task of reversing input, and then building the project in Visual Studio.
  4. Set Up the CWSDEMO Enterprise Server Region, WSDL
    Guides you through the process of creating and configuring an enterprise server region named CWSDEMO. In addition, walks you through the process of verifying that the region contains the resources required to run the Reverse Web service provider.
  5. Test the Reverse Web Service Provider
    Provides instructions and the code required to send a SOAP request to test the Reverse Web service provider.
Parent topic: Tutorials: CICS Web Services
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Tutorials: CICS Web Services