About this Guide

This document describes how you use the Connector for Web Services to set up and run web services to access BDE business objects on an Infor LN server or BOI's on a Baan IV or Baan 5 server.

The guide additionally discusses the installation and configuration of the connector.

BDE stands for Business Data Entity, which is an LN-specific representation of a business object.

BOI stands for Business Object Interface, which is a Baan-specific representation of a business object.

Pre-requisites

Note:  Connector for Web Services applies to BDE interfaces version 8.4 or later

The connector provides web services if the server conforms to these pre-requisites:

  • BDE business interfaces implementations generated with Infor LN Studio version 8.4 (or later)
  • Enterprise Server version 8.4 (or later)
Note:  Connector for Web Services applies to all versions of BOI interfaces

The connector provides web services if the server conforms to these pre-requisites:

  • Baan IV
  • Baan 5.0

Organization

This table shows the chapters and appendices of the guide:

Section Description
Introduction Provides general product information on the Connector for Web Services.
Requirements Describes the pre-requisites of the Connector for Web Services.
Installation Describes the installation of the Connector for Web Services. Both automated and manual installation are discussed. The chapter also mentions updating and uninstalling the connector.
Configuration and deployment Describes how to configure the Connector for Web Services to run web services for particular BDE or BOI business objects.
Employment Describes how to run a web service for a BDE business object on an LN server and a webservice for a BOI on a Baan IV and Baan 5 server.
Troubleshooting Deals with finding the source of an error and solving known problems.
Web service concepts Provides some background information on web service standards, such as WSDL and SOAP.

Related documents

You can find the documents in the product documentation section of the Infor Customer Portal, as described in "Contacting Infor".

  • Infor Enterprise Server Installation Guide
  • The Infor LN Studio documentation

For more information about BDE business objects and the messages they apply to exchange business data, see these guides:

  • Infor Integration 6.2 - Integration Guide for BDE Clients
  • Infor Integration 6.2 - Integration Guide for BOI Clients

Points of attention

Note: The terms BDE and BOI are used throughout this document, but are used for different software versions: BDE is used for LN, and BOI is used for Baan IV and Baan 5. The term Infor LN or Baan contains the software versions Infor LN, Baan 5.0, and Baan IV. If one specific version is mentioned, it means that the other versions do not support this case.
Caution: 
The web services for BDE business objects discussed in the Infor Integration 6.2 - Integration Guide for BDE Clients does not apply to the Connector for Web Services, because Infor Integration uses its own web application to provide BDE web services, called the Web Services Toolkit (wstk). To run this connector, you require the transport and messaging infrastructure of Infor Integration .