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Web Service providers
Figure 9.2
Borland Web Services Architecture
Web Service providers
The Borland web services engine includes a number of providers. A provider is the link
that connects a client web service request to the user's class on the server side.
All providers do the following:
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Create an instance of an object on which they can invoke methods. The exact way
of creating this object differs from provider to provider.
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Invoke the methods on that object and pass all the parameters that the XML client
sent.
Pass the return value to the Axis Runtime engine, which then converts it to XML and
sends it back to the client.
Specifying web service information in a deploy.wsdd file
When installing a new web service, you must name the web service and specify which
provider the service is going to use. Each provider takes different parameters. The
following describes the service providers and the required parameters for each.
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