514 Patterns: Extended Enterprise SOA and Web Services
C.1 CICS Transaction Server V3.1 Web services support
CICS Transaction Server V3.1 introduces formal support for Web services. It
provides the following features:
A CICS application can participate in a heterogeneous Web services
environment as a service requester, as a service provider, or both.
It provides support for HTTP and MQ.
It includes the CICS Web services assistant, a set of utility programs that help
you map WSDL service descriptions into high-level programming language
data structures, and vice versa. The utility programs support the following
programming languages:
–COBOL
– PL/I
–C
–C++
The CICS support for Web services conforms to open standards including:
– SOAP V1.1 ...