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About Web Services

Web Services operators run on both Orchestrators and agents. Two of the operators provide an interface to remote services exposed through SOAP. These operators:

• Builds a SOAP request.

  The data can be extracted at run time from existing CA Process Automation Datasets and variables or from external sources.

• Sends the SOAP request to the appropriate Web Services operator category specified at design or run time.
• Retrieves response handling error conditions as appropriate.
• Parses the incoming response and stores the results into CA Process Automation Datasets that subsequent Operators in a Process access.
• An asynchronous call sends the request and, after receiving an acknowledgment, waits for a response from remote destination. Asynchronous calls use a more complex send and receive than synchronous calls. Subsequent Operators in a Process access the returned data.

Web Services also provides the ability to automate data management facilities over a network using HTTP. For example, content designers can develop processes that automate RESTful services through HTTP Operators. When an HTTP operator is configured with a blank field, that operator inherits the default value of the corresponding field from the parent category setting. Therefore, when you make a selection for an operator category field, nothing gets enabled or disabled. You can specify all of the defaults, at your discretion. When you configure these same options at the operator level, selection of one option disables the others.

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