Webservice (SOAP) Connector

Note

The Webservice (SOAP) Connector will be deprecated with Release 8.0 of the X4 BPMS and no longer be supported in future releases.

This adapter sends a SOAP Request via HTTP(S) to the URL of a web service and issues the returned SOAP Response. It communicates with servers via HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) or HTTPS (HTTP Secure).

If authentication is required, this must be SOAP-based via the SOAP header; its structure (certificate-based, token-based, etc.) must first be clarified with the remote peer. HTTP and NTLM authentication and proxy servers are also supported.

Note:

The adapter supports SOAP MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism), which can be used to transmit large documents or binary data in MTOM-based WebServices via XOP (XML-binary Optimized Packaging) with high performance.

MTOM processing for requests is enabled only if the adapter's input document has the MIME type text/xml or application/xml.

The MTOM function is controlled via Processing Instructions, which are added to the SOAP request document to enable MTOM on input side:

<?useMTOM?>: enable MTOM function for this SOAP request
<?MTOM-xpath 0-n XPath expressions ?>: Any number of XPath expressions to define the elements containing binary data
<?MTOM-size size in KB ?>: size of the data in kilobytes from which compression is activated (default: 1 KB)

In addition, the adapter automatically converts MTOM-based SOAP responses provided by a web service into standard SOAP responses.

Properties

Operation

Determines which operation the adapter executes

Possible values: Call: Execute adapter

Parameters

Adapter	Main class of the adapter (do not change!) Possible values: `de.softproject.integration.adapter.httpws.HttpWSAdapter`: Main class (default)
wsURL	URL to which the SOAP request is sent, with the default port `80`. Possible values: Any web service URL Deviating ports must be specified in the URL.
soapAction	HTTP header of the SOAP request. The value of this parameter is a URL that identifies the requested operation.
login	Username for simple HTTP authentication Possible values: Any string
pwd	Password for simple HTTP authentication Possible values: Any string
preemptiveAuth	Enable preemptive authentication (using credentials of `login` and `pwd` parameters) for all HTTP(S) calls. Possible values: `Yes`: Send credentials directly (preemptively) with each HTTP(S) call. `No`: No preemptive authentication (default)
pxHost	IP address or host name of a proxy server Possible values: Any valid string (e.g. `192.168.1.1`)
pxPort	Port number of the proxy server Possible values: Any integer
pxLogin	Username for the proxy server Possible values: Any string
pxPwd	Password for the proxy server Possible values: Any string
pxNTLMDomain	Windows domain for NTLM authentication via NTLM proxy Possible values: Any domain name
pxNTLMhost	Host (computer name) from which the authentication request originates (for NTLM authentication via NTLM proxy). Possible values: Any host name
pxUseNTLM	Use Microsoft's proprietary NTLM authentication for the proxy Possible values: `yes`: Authenticate via NTLM `no`: Do not authenticate via NTLM (default)
nTLMDomain	Windows domain for NTLM server authentication Possible values: Any domain name
nTLMhost	Host (computer name) from which the NTLM server authentication request originates. Possible values: Any host name
useNTLM	Use Microsoft proprietary NTLM server authentication Possible values: `yes`: Authenticate via NTLM `no`: Do not authenticate via NTLM (default)
timeout	Time limit for establishing connection in milliseconds Possible values: Any integer `0`: No time limit
keystorePath	Complete path to the keystore file; if a keystore is specified, only certificates of this keystore are accepted Possible values: Any path to the keystore file (use only certificates of this keystore) `(no path)`: Accept all certificates
keystorePassword	Password for the keystore file Possible values: Any string

Status values

`1`	The operation was executed successfully.
`-1`	The operation failed due to a technical error.

Input

To call a web service with MTOM, the SOAP request must contain the above processing instructions, for example:

<?useMTOM?>
<?MTOM-xpath soapenv:Envelope/soapenv:Body/ws:signVerifyRequest/ws:Service
  RequestData/ws:Document?>
<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/" 
 xmlns:ws="http://authentidate.de/ws">
  <soapenv:Header />
  <soapenv:Body>
    <ws:signVerifyRequest>
      <ws:ServiceRequestData>
        <ws:Document>JVBiRi0xLjMKMyAwIG9iago8PC9UeXBlIC9QYWdlCi9QYXJlbnQgM
          SAwIFIKL1Jlc291cmNlcyAyIDAgUgovQ29udGVudHMgNCAwIFI+PgplbmRvYmoKNC
          AwIG9iago8PC9GaWx0ZXIgL0ZsYXRlRGVjb2RlIC9MZW5ndGggMjEzNT4+CnN0cmV
        </ws:Document>
        <ws:DocumentName>R_1639_37480.pdf</ws:DocumentName>
        <ws:ServiceRequest>SIGN</ws:ServiceRequest>
      </ws:ServiceRequestData>
    </ws:signVerifyRequest>
  </soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>

Multiple Processing Instructions are always listed as individual elements one after the other.