Web Services API

In this sub-module, you will learn about the Web Services API. You will learn some of the important concepts related to Web Services. You will also look at a Web Services example that provides the basic search functionality.

Some of the regular users of Oracle Secure Enterprise Search want to write their own application to search Oracle SES over the network. They want the flexibility to deploy their applications to any machine that connects to Oracle SES server through a standard Internet protocol.

Timothy finds out that the Web Services API lets them perform the required tasks. Applications can be deployed into any machine that connects to Oracle SES server through a standard Internet protocol. Also, Web Services protocol is XML-based. Hence, it makes for easy application integration.

Oracle SES also provides the client-side Java proxies for marshalling and parsing Web Services SOAP messages. Client applications can use the library instead of creating SOAP requests and parsing SOAP responses by themselves to access Oracle SES Web Services.

Timothy first studies concepts related to Oracle SES Web Services, and then creates a simple JSP application using Oracle Secure Enterprise Search proxy Java library to provide the basic search functionality.