Web services provide interfaces between disparate systems on different platforms using different languages. These systems interface by communicating over the web and using web browser standards. There are three basic platform elements that every web service will use: WSDL, SOAP, and UDDI. For those that are new to these concepts, you may find www.w3schools.com and www.w3c.org helpful.
If you need additional information, Sun Microsystems maintains a Java developers' site at java.sun.com that includes API specifications, sample code and applications, and technical articles and tips.
LeasePak provides web services via a purchaseable module named LinkIT. LinkIT runs on an mPower Server. For more information about the platforms supported, requirements, and how to setup an mPower Server, see mPower Server in the System Administrators Guide.
For each of the web services (also known as a class) which LeasePak provides, this documentation will describe the purpose of the class, provide the WSDL, and list each different method available within that class.
For each method this documentation will provide, a reference grid, an XML schema or DTD, and a sample message file in XML for both the input or request message used and the output or response message returned by the method. These will coincide with the request and response messages defined in the WSDL. All request and response messages being sent or returned from a web service method must be wrapped in a SOAP wrapper. Therefore the sample message files will be shown both with and without a SOAP wrapper.