Hi All
I am relatively new to concept of " services being consumed by an external application" .
I have a scenario , where our customer has an web based system , that needs to know , Price list for customers.
since we have a standard document service " PriceList " ( Sends a compiled price list to a customer. The price list is based on the trade agreements and discounts for the specific customer.) we want to use the same.
Some points ,
we are not yet sure on which platform the external application(Web based) is built on(.net/Java or some other) . However i guess , services can be consumed independent of the platform.
So , below i will list the sequence of operations i will perform to achieve this and please provide your input , for the steps where i need your advise.
1. Create an outbound port.
2. Select the service PriceList and select the operation read. press ok.
3. Activate the outbound port. Its deployed and now ready to be consumed by the external application.
4. Here i need your advice, how the external system, a web based application, will consume this exposed service??? any working examples, or has anyone done it? i have Google and got some examples consuming it via visual studio, thats all fine??? or do i need to do something else?
5. What questions , i should be asking my customers, to get enough information to get this working.
Thanks in advance.