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Introduction : Overview of SOAP Web services in OpenEdge : SOAP Web service architecture in OpenEdge
 

SOAP Web service architecture in OpenEdge

The following figure shows the basic Web services architecture, highlighting the specific OpenEdge elements used to produce a Web service.
Figure 2. OpenEdge SOAP Web services architecture
As the above figure shows, producing an OpenEdge SOAP Web service only requires deploying an interface for an AppServer-enabled ABL application on the WSA. Both your application and the expected clients affect how you define that interface.