Creating a JSON service provider application by using the JSON assistant

You can create a service provider application from a JSON schema that complies with JSON schema v4 (draft), or from a high-level language data structure. The CICS® JSON assistant helps you to deploy your CICS applications in a service provider setting.

About this task

When you use the assistant to deploy a CICS application as a service provider, you have two options:

• Start with a JSON schema and use the assistant to generate the language data structures.

  Use this option when you want to implement a service provider that conforms with an existing web service description.

• Start with the language data structures and use the assistant to generate the JSON schema.

  Use this option when you want to expose an existing program as a JSON service.