The WebSphere® Sensor Events application program interface (API) enables customers to create custom applications that interface with a WebSphere Sensor Events. Use the WebSphere Sensor Events Toolkit to create applications using the WebSphere Sensor Events API.
The APIs provide access to a wide range of WebSphere Sensor Events information, and can be applied to a wide variety of usage scenarios. WebSphere Sensor Events 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 Sensor Events API.
You can use the WebSphere Sensor Events API to communicate with the WebSphere Sensor Events Application Level Events (ALE) engine using Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) calls.
You can also use the API to develop a new print profile for WebSphere Sensor Events 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 Sensor Events).
For information about the WebSphere Sensor Events Java API, refer to the WebSphere Sensor Events API documentation.