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Web Services

A Web Service is a software system that is designed to support interoperable machine-to-machine interaction over a network. CA Gen Web Services Middleware runtime provides a client application with the ability to invoke an EJB or TE Web Service server application.

Clients:

• Java Web Generation clients, Java Web View clients, Java EJB servers flowing to other CA Gen servers and user-written clients using Java Proxy use the Java Web Services middleware.
• MFC GUI clients and user-written clients using COM Proxy and C Proxy use the C Web Services middleware.
• ASP.NET internet clients, .NET Servers flowing to other CA Gen servers and user-written clients using .NET Proxy use the C# Web Services middleware.

Note: For more information about how CA Gen uses Web Services middleware to support cooperative flows from clients to CA Gen Distributed Processing EJB Web Service server applications, see the Distributed Processing—Enterprise JavaBeans User Guide.