The Web Services Adapter (WSA) (for OpenEdge SOAP Web Services) is a Java servlet that exposes OpenEdge AppServer applications as SOAP Web services. The WSA is installed and runs in the context of a Java servlet engine (JSE) that runs in the context of a Web server.
To expose AppServer applications as SOAP Web services, the WSA serves a dual role:
As a gateway between the SOAP request messages, which SOAP Web services and SOAP Web service clients exchange, and ABL applications on the AppServer, which execute SOAP Web service requests
As an application server that hosts, manages, and provides communications and run-time support for multiple deployed SOAP Web service applications
As a gateway between the SOAP request messages, which SOAP Web services and SOAP Web service clients exchange, and ABL applications on the AppServer, which execute SOAP Web service requests
