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How does MapForce support Web services implementation?

April 26, 2017Implementation mapforce support web services

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How does MapForce support Web services implementation?

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Developing Web services can be complicated and time consuming and can represent a significant learning curve for users who are inexperienced with the related technologies, such as SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and WSDL (Web Services Description Language). MapForce takes the complexity out of Web services implementation by allowing developers to build Web services visually, using a highly-intuitive graphical design interface. With MapForce, users simply map operations in WSDL 1.1/2.0 transactions by dragging connecting lines from data sources, through optional data processing functions, to WSDL operations. Supported data sources include any combination of XML files, relational databases, flat files, EDI messages, and XBRL reports. Then, once mappings for all the transactions in a WSDL file are defined, MapForce auto-generates the C# or Java code required to implement the Web service on a server. The MapForce approach to building Web services allows developers to implement Web ser