Chapter 12. Creating and Consuming Web Services
In this chapter, we will look at the following recipes related to Web services:
- Creating a Web service from a function module
- Configuring the created Web service
- Consuming a Web service
- Creating a consumer proxy's logical port
- Calling a Web service from an ABAP program
Introduction
The Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is the current paradigm in which one type of software communicates with another software written in a different language and exchanges information. In a service-oriented design, we have a service provider that provides a particular service. Web service technology is not specific to SAP.
For a Web service, a Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) file exists that contains the necessary information ...
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