Enable Web services to use the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF)

The Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) is a WSDL-oriented Java API that allows you to invoke Web services dynamically, regardless of what format (for example EJB) the service is implemented in, or what mechanism (for example JMS) is used to access it.

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

For more information about WSIF, see these topics:

Goals of WSIF
This topic describes the goals of WSIF.

An overview of WSIF
This topic provides an overview of WSIF including a description of the architecture and usage scenarios.

Use WSIF to invoke Web services
This topic describes how to use WSIF to invoke Web services.

WSIF system management and administration
This topic describes how to enable security for WSIF, and how to maintain the WSIF properties file.

WSIF API
This topic describes the WSIF APIs.