58 Developing Web Services Using CICS, WMQ, and WMB
4.1 Web services assistant in CICS TS 3.1
The CICS Web services assistant is a set of batch utilities that can help you
transform existing CICS applications into Web services and enable CICS
applications to use Web services provided by external providers. The assistant
supports rapid deployment of CICS applications for use in service providers and
service requesters, with minimal programming effort.
When you use the Web Services Assistant for CICS, you do not have to write
your own code for parsing inbound messages and for constructing outbound
messages; instead, CICS maps data between the body of a SOAP message and
the application program’s data structure.
Resource definitions are, for the ...