Web Services Architecture

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Web Services is powered by the Oracle SES middle tier OC4J server. The implementation, configuration, and deployment of Oracle SES Web Services follow the procedures and standards provided by OC4J server.

Oracle SES WSDL defines the operations and messages for Oracle SES Web Services. The message exchange of Oracle SES Web Services is RPC style, in which the contents of the SOAP message body conform to a structure that specifies a procedure and includes set of parameters or a response with a result and any additional parameters.

Oracle SES SOAP messages use HTTP binding where a SOAP message is embedded in the body of a HTTP request and a SOAP message is returned in the HTTP response.

The following diagram illustrates the architecture of Oracle SES Web Services:

This graphic shows the client machine in a box. Within that box are client applications and the OSES proxy Java library. The client application can make SOAP calls directly or use the proxy Java library. Completely separate from this is the OES WSDL published interface.