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Web Service

Former Member — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:21:27 GMT

What is a Web service means?

Would some one explain me a step by Step process in ABAP How to create a Web service?

Thanks.

Re: Web Service

Former Member — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:23:36 GMT

Use the link

[original link is broken]

Regards

Pulkit Agrawal

Re: Web Service

Former Member — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:26:41 GMT

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_webas620/helpdata/en/94/f8c8bae68811d6b2dc00508b5d5211/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/bb/ddb33d2ae46b3be10000000a114084/frameset.htm

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/9b/dad1ae3908ee44a5caf57e10918be9/content.htm

Re: Web Service

athavanraja — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:28:49 GMT

webservice is a method which can take some input process it and gives some output which can be accessed from any application.

in ABAP world every RFC is a webservice.

check this link for the general definition of webservice

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webservice

Regards

Raja

Re: Web Service

Former Member — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:50:08 GMT

Thanks a lot DuraiRaj.

How to convert an RFC into an WebService? Whats the exact difference between an RFC and a Webservice?

Re: Web Service

athavanraja — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 11:56:10 GMT

which version of SAP you are using?

for external applications to cosume your webservice, they would request you for the WSDL file - (Web Services Description Language) which descirbes about the webervice, like what are the import parameters, export parameters, connection details, etc.

in sap system to get the wsdl file of a RFC/webservice you can use the following url pattern

http://<abaphost>.domain.com:<port>/sap/bc/soap/wsdl11?services=<RFC NAME IN UPPERCASE>&sap-client=001

the application which want to consume your webservice, would create something called client proxy using this wsdl and it will execute the client proxy which would call the webservice to get the results.

Regards

Raja