Websydian for Web Services Mikkel Schnack Soft Design

Websydian for Web Services Mikkel Schnack Soft Design A/S Session Code: 4 H

Agenda Web Services overview n Web Service Examples n Websydian and Web Services n Web Service Demo n Success story - LB n

What is Web Services? w Automated communication between computers over the Internet Firewall SOAP Message

Description Broker Subscribe Web Services in action Publish Internet Web Service Subscriber Invoke Response Web Service Publisher

Technical Description w Uses standard high-level Internet communication protocols n HTTP w Transfers data using XML w DTD (Document Type Definition) n Describes its message types using a portable type system (language and platform neutral) WSDL (Web Service Description Language) Provides a way to access metadata describing the messages it accepts Simplicity and Flexibility!

Web Services based on SOAP over HTTP are emerging as the leading technology for encapsulating business processes and sharing them with Business partners

What is SOAP? w Simple Object Access Protocol w A transport protocol w Based on XML w A widely recognized standard w The technical foundation for Web Services

What is the function of SOAP? w Provide a language-independent pipe that enable real-time transfer of data between disparate systems. w Enables safe automated communication through firewalls

Subscriber Internet Firewall Publisher Firewall SOAP Req SOAP Generator HTTP Server SOAP Processor SOAP Resp Apps

Web Service Advantages w Real-time / Syncronous Dialog w Fully Automated w Platform Independant w Universal Protocol n SOAP w Firewall Friendly n HTTP and HTTPS

Web Services can be made based on XML or XML/SOAP However, two additional standards are emerging as leading standards: WSDL: (Web Service Description Language) Provides a way to access metadata describing the Web Services requirement to the messages/ information exchanged UDDI: the Yellow pages for Web Services

WSDL UDDI Subscribe Web Services in action Publish SOAP Web Service Subscriber Over HTTP Invoke Response Web Service Publisher

Agenda Web Services overview n Web Service Examples n Websydian and Web Services n Web Service Demo n Success story - LB n

Business Context w Why Web Services? n Where do Web Services create most value w Examples: n n Outsourcing B 2 B added value B 2 B data exchange B 2 B – B 2 C broker B 2 B B 2 C

Outsourcing Web Services Before After

Added Value w Tightening B 2 B ties Before Web Services After

B 2 B Data Exchange w Integrated Communication w Automated Communication

Before A Broker A After A Browser-based Requests B Web Services B Broker C C D D Browser-based Requests

Agenda Web Services overview n Web Service Examples n Websydian and Web Services n Web Service Demo n Success story - LB

Websydian and Web Services

Websydian Web Service Components w Websydian Transac. Xml Developer n n Handles XML documents in Model based environment (Plex) Import and Export capabilities w Websydian HTTP Client w Websydian Web Service Developer n Handles entire SOAP Message handling

Web Services in the next Websydian release In the Websydian Dvalin release 2 Q 2003 w c. XML w WSDL

Agenda Web Services overview n Web Service Examples n Websydian and Web Services n Web Service Demo n Success story - LB n

Demo Background w Broker application n n Allows consumers to compare prices and service quality from distributors Allows consumers to buy from chosen distributor directly from broker web site

Agenda Web Services overview n Web Service Examples n Websydian and Web Services n Web Service Demo n Success story - LB n

Insurance Portal www. Forsikringsluppen. dk XML Broker Internet Customer with (Browser) Internet Insurance company 1 Insurance company 3 Insurance company 2

The LB Insurance Web Services Case This case illustrate the strength of the model based development tools Websydian and Advantage Plex

LB’s e-Business applications External laptop access/ODBC Customer (Browsers) Phase 2 Web Service application Internet Phase 4 Web service application reusing Websydian applications Plex application made as component Firewall AS/400 server Phase 1 Web server Customer (Browsers) Phase 3 Websydian applications GUI application for internal use Corporate Database

e-Business Objectives To develop a Web Service application for a public insurance Broker Quickly l Reusing the existing business logic l Using the existing Websydian applications l

e-Business Application w Access to LB’s insurance quote application Able to exchange XML information with the Insurance Portal l Generate a customized insurance quote based on this information l w Application l A Web Service application there used the existing Websydian web applications to generate quotes

Requirements w Integrated e-business Web service e-business solution integrate fully with existing Websydian web applications and with backend applications l XML-access built entirely using advantage Plex and Websydian l Deployed on existing web server l

Requirements w e-business application requirements l Accessed using XML l Fast w HTML-based => no special modem requirements l Provide instant quote l Fully automated

Business values for LB l e-Business solution used to increase exposure through a public insurance Broker l Customers able to compare insurances quotes l Inexpensive way of complying with governmental rules l New Customers

Business values for LB n n n No platform changes were necessary Could build on existing back-end application web applications using Advantage Plex and Websydian LB can now develop future Web Service applications inhouse

Insurance Portal www. Forsikringsluppen. dk Broker Internet Customer accessing (Browsers) Internet Insurance company 1 Insurance company 3 Insurance company 2

Types of insurance to select : household, car and family

a e d e to r e om t s e h tt q e R s e u cu ov r p t a d

Next page

Selection of insurance companies to get a quote from

You now ask for quotes !

n. Within 30 Seconds you get an answer!

Comments to the quotes = equal, + better, - less, ! Additional comments

Session Summary w Web Services n n n enables Automated communication between computers over the Internet Provides Real-time / Syncronous Dialog, Fully Automated, Platform Independent, Universal Protocol (SOAP) Firewall Friendly (HTTP and HTTPS) w Websydian Web Service Developer n n n Enables Model based Web services development Handles entire SOAP Message handling WSDL will come in 2003

? Questions & Answers

For customers references Visit our Website – www. websydian. com