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iWay Explorer provides web developers with a simple, consistent mechanism for extending the capabilities of the iWay Application Protocol Adapter for LDAP. The iWay Business Services Provider (iBSP) exposes functionality as web services. It serves as a gateway to heterogeneous back-end applications and databases.
A web service is a self-contained, modularized function that you can publish and access 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 as a "black box" that may require input and delivers a result. Web services integrate within an enterprise as well as across enterprises on any communication technology stack, whether asynchronous or synchronous, in any format.
After you browse LDAP entries and create an XML schema, you can generate an iWay Business Service for the LDAP entry you wish to use with your adapter.
When you create a web service, iWay Explorer automatically uses the selected entry as the method name, since all methods can be called from the entry. This creates a conflict because these method names are not compatible in XML documents and issues with web clients can occur. It is a strongly recommended that all special characters (such as commas (,) equal signs (=), and so on) be removed from the name as the service is created.
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