The WebSphere® Premises Server application program interface (API) enables customers to create custom applications that interface with a WebSphere Premises Server. Use the WebSphere Premises Server Toolkit to create applications using the WebSphere Premises Server API.
The APIs provide access to a wide range of WebSphere Premises Server information, and can be applied to a wide variety of usage scenarios. WebSphere Premises Server ships a working example of one such scenario, the Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface. The Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface demonstrates a scenario for printing tags, verifying tags that are affixed to containers, and then registering the shipment of those containers. The Print, Verify, and Ship Reference User Interface is a working example of a J2EE servlet and JSP application that makes numerous calls to the WebSphere Premises Server API.
You can use the WebSphere Premises Server API to communicate with the WebSphere Premises Server Application Level Events (ALE) engine using Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) calls. You can also use the WebSphere Premises Server API to communicate with any Electronic Product Code Information System (EPCIS) by creating and sending Object and Aggregate Events.
You can also use the API to develop a new print profile for WebSphere Premises Server to use. For more information on using print profiles, refer to Print profile support.
You can run Java™ APIs both remotely (different WebSphere Application Server) and locally (using the same WebSphere Application Server as WebSphere Premises Server).
For more information about the WebSphere Premises Server Java API, refer to the WebSphere Premises Server API documentation.