Data Access Services for IBM WebSphere Product Center
A Web service that provides an "out-of-the-box" way to access and manipulate WebSphere Product Center data.
Date Posted: October 26, 2006
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What is Data Access Services for IBM WebSphere Product Center?
IBM WebSphere® Product Center (WPC) is the leading product information management system in the market today. WPC is designed to address the majority of customer product information management (PIM) requirements and processes straight out of the box.
Data Access Service (DAS) for IBM WPC is a Web service that provides an "out-of-the-box" way to access and manipulate WPC data. Using technologies such as Web Service Definition Language (WSDL), Service Data Objects (SDOs), Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF), Eclipse run-time environment, and XPath, the DAS for WPC provides customers with a standard-based means of SOA-enabling their WPC system.
DAS for WPC provides the following:
- a consistent set of Web services
- WPC data entities that are accessible to remote systems such as
- IBM WebSphere Process Server
- BPEL workflow engine
- IBM WebSphere Portal
- tools or proprietary applications.
- services available out of the box.
How does it work? DAS for WPC provides the following Web services:
- Get service:
- Get item.
- Get catalog.
- Get multiple items.
- Get multiple items from different catalogs.
- Get look-up tables and contents
- Get categories and hierarchies.
- Update service:
- Update changes back to WPC.
- Create item(s).
- Detect update conflicts.
- Facilitate multiple conflict resolution policies.
- Validate updated entities.
- Validation service:
- Validate data on the client side using SDO schemas.
- Validate against in-built WPC rules.
- Refresh service: Support for item re-categorization.
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| | About the technology author(s):
This technology was developed by Anthony Garrard, Barry Dow, Bob Maddison, Catherine Griffin, Conor Beverland, Daniel Lee, Diego Oriato, James Taylor, John Beaven, Katharine Jagger, Mark Wynn-Mackenzie, Matthew Whitbourne, Mike Cobbett, Rebecca Schaller, and Richard Burton. The development was led by Lakshmi Shankar and project managed by Veronique Veness. The entire team is part of the Information Management group based at the IBM Laboratories in the U.K.
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