EGL Reference Guide for iSeries


EGL Web service

A Web service is a set of operations that can be invoked by a program interface over the Internet. These operations are accessible to a variety of Web service clients that run on the same or different platforms. A client can be a JSP, servlet, or Java application; or an executable written in any of several languages such as C++, Perl, Visual Basic, or JavaScript(TM).

A Web service provides no user interface.

An EGL Web service is composed primarily of the following components:

Additional components are described in the next section.


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