Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF): Enabling Web services

WSIF is a WSDL-oriented Java API. You use this API to invoke Web services dynamically, regardless of the service implementation format (for example, enterprise bean) or the service access mechanism (for example, JMS).

The WSIF framework includes an EJB provider for EJB invocation using Remote Method Invocation over Internet Inter-ORB Protocol (RMI-IIOP). However, for EJB(IIOP)-based Web service invocation you should instead invoke RMI-IIOP Web services using JAX-RPC.

Use WSIF, we can move away from the usual Web services model of working directly with the SOAP APIs, towards a model where you interact with representations of the services. You can therefore work with the same model regardless of how the service is implemented and accessed.

To use WSIF, see the following topics:

 

• Learn about WSIF.
• Use WSIF to invoke Web services.
• Run WSIF as a client.
• Manage WSIF.
• Invoke a WSDL-based Web service through the WSIF API.

Learn about the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF)
Use WSIF to invoke Web services
Running WSIF as a client
Manage WSIF

 

Related tasks

Invoking a WSDL-based Web service through the WSIF API