The Process Engine Web Service is a standards-based Web services implementation, deployed as a Web application on the supported IBM® FileNet® Content Engine application server. It is compliant with:
Additionally, the following SOAP version is supported:
The Process Engine Web Service uses the framework that is provided by IBM Axis2. For version information, see the IBM FileNet P8 system requirements web page. Axis2 is a Web services platform providing development tools, a runtime server, and management services. Axis2 runtime services isolate common services from business applications. The runtime server processes SOAP messages and provides a runtime container for web services. The SOAP message processor converts SOAP messages into application invocations, mapping XML types to Java™ types. The runtime service container hosts and manages the deployed applications.
The Web service operations are stateless. The caller is required to pass in user criteria as part of the SOAP WS-Security header for the operation. For more information, see Creating the WS-Security Header.
The Process Engine Web Service (ProcessEngineWS) provides a subset of the Process Engine runtime API, and (per WS-I Basic Profile 1.0) uses document/literal SOAP messaging. The reference documentation for the Process Engine Web Service links each operation to the associated Process Engine runtime class and method.
The Process Engine Web Service must access a Process Engine connection point to create and maintain a session. The default connection point for the Process Engine Web Service is "PEWSConnectionPoint". See Using Multiple Regions for instructions in specifying a Process Engine connection point in the SOAP header.