Web Service methods overview

Web services expose their functionality through methods. Consumers call these methods when they want to request the service that the method provides through the web service.

M3 Web Services Designer allows you to create methods for different types of programs.

If you are using M3 Business Engine, you can use these programs:

• M3 API Programs: See Creating a method wrapping an M3 API program.

• M3 Display Programs: See Creating a method wrapping an M3 Display Program.

You can also write web services for SQL Queries. See Working with SQL Queries.

You can add multiple methods to a web service.

Methods are displayed in the Web Service Repositories view. To view methods associated with a web service, click to expand the web service. Methods are displayed underneath web services in the tree view. The type of icon next to the method provides error and warning information:

• A green icon indicates that the method has no errors or warnings.

• A yellow triangle indicates that then method has warnings, but can be deployed.

• A red square indicates that the method has errors and is not deployable.