Tutorial: CICS Web Service Provider from WSDL, Top-down Method

Walks you through the steps required to create a new CICS Web service provider application starting with an existing WSDL file. The resulting Web service uses the SOAP protocol.
Restriction: This topic applies to Windows environments (local development) only.

In this tutorial, you use the top-down method to create a Web service provider that sends one or more character strings in the form of a SOAP request to a generated CICS application. The application reads and then reverses each string, and sends the reversed strings back to the Web service as a SOAP response message. To use the top-down method, you supply a WSDL file that describes the CICS application you want to access.

Prerequisite

Review the Assumptions and Before you begin a CICS Web services tutorial sections in the Tutorials: CICS Web Services topic to be sure you have your environment configured properly.

Sequence

To complete this tutorial, progress through these topics in the order presented here. The bottom of each topic provides Next topic and Previous topic navigational links to help you proceed in the proper sequence: