Web Services
Easy integration
Web services make it possible for two applications to communicate in a standardized way. A simple example of web service is a service that returns the street name for a given zip code. The Mendix platform makes it not only easy to call services in other applications, but also to expose functionality of your application as web services for other systems. All the low-level details are handled under the hood.
Advantages
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Import web services in a handful of clicks. There is no need to deal with all the low-level intricacies of the web service description language.
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Expose functionality of your application by publishing a microflow as a web service.
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Visually define the mapping between your domain model and the XML world.
Technical features
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Call web services directly from microflows.
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Import a web service description (WSDL) into the Modeler and define a mapping between Mendix objects and XML.
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In more complex cases, microflows can be used to convert and combine values and to customize the mapping in other ways.
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Two-way visual mapping of domain model and XML to allow for complex parameters and complex return values.
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When publishing a microflow as a service, the necessary code (WSDL) is automatically generated and can be used by external systems (Mendix or otherwise).
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