Description of the Connector for Web Services

This section gives a brief description of the Infor ES Connector for Web Services.

The Connector for Web Services is a Java servlet, which implements a web application to access business objects through a web service. This web service is SOAP-based and exposes data from BDE or BOI business interfaces implemented on Infor LN or Baan servers. The web services consist of server requests from a web client that call methods on BDE or BOI business objects implemented on the Infor LN or Baan application server. The connector receives and unwraps the SOAP messages from a web client, redirects the contained method calls to the Infor LN or Baan application, wraps the reply to the call in a SOAP message again, and sends the reply back to the web client.