Web Services Support 
A natural extension of the concept of portal services is the Web services technology. By providing a SOAP connection to the portal services, external components can access the services and applications developed with the PRT using the SOAP protocol. The same way, the PRT provides tools and facilities to generate proxies to external Web services. This means that portal components and portal services can easily access external Web services to build a portal application.
The PRT offers two convenient ways for using Web services:
· Offering portal services as Web services
· Portal applications are allowed to access external Web services
Portal Services as Web Services
You use the plug-in tool (PAR plug-in) to turn a portal service into a Web service. The WSDL file informs you which methods are accessible in the service.
The PRT offers three different ways of processing the Web service:
Way to Process |
URL to Access WSDL |
RPC Encoded |
/irj/servlet/prt/soap/PortalServiceName?style=rpc_enc |
RPC Literal |
/irj/servlet/prt/soap/PortalServiceName?style=rpc_lit |
Document Literal |
/irj/servlet/prt/soap/PortalServiceName?style=rpc_lit |
Portal Applications and External web services
External Web services can be accessed by portal components or portal services
Access Scheme
The external Web service is accessed like every other service within the portal. Only the WSDL file of this external Web service is requested (even if it is only accessible via the Internet). The related tool enables you to configure your development environment.
See also:
· SOAP Framework and Connection
· Security on the Portal Web Services