An iWay Business Service (or web service) is a self-contained, modularized function that can be published and accessed across a network using open standards. It is the implementation of an interface by a component and is an executable entity. For the caller or sender, a web service can be considered a "black box" that may require input and delivers a result. Web services can be integrated within an enterprise as well as across enterprises on any communication technology stack, whether asynchronous or synchronous, in any format.
The iWay Technology Adapter for ESRI facilitates data movement between databases and applications through XML documents. iWay Explorer creates the XML schema for both the request and response documents used by a business service. The iWay Technology Adapter for ESRI supports the following database table services:
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