This tutorial design guide introduces you to the concept of web services and teaches you how you can communicate with a web service in Blueriq. It covers the most important topics that you might encounter while creating applications. It shows you how to get started and provides you with a collection of best practices.

When you want to experiment with calling a SOAP or REST service from Blueriq, or with making your own BAAS (Blueriq as a Service), also check the Web services visuals.

Who is this

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design guide for?

This tutorial design guide is intended for Business Engineers that have a Business Engineer who has some technical affinity that intend , who wants to either call a foreign web service with Blueriq , or that intend to create their his own web service using Blueriq. You are expected to know the Blueriq basics, but now no knowledge of web services is needed to start.

Organization of this

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design guide

This design guide This tutorial is divided into fourpartsfour parts:

1. An introduction to web services
2. Calling a web service
3. Blueriq as a service
4. Best Practices
   
   

Part 1I: An introduction to web services

1. What is a web service?

2. Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)

3. Representational State Transfer (REST)

Part 2II: Calling a web service

4. Calling a SOAP service

5. Calling a REST service

Part 3: III: Blueriq as a service

6. Setting up Blueriq as a web service

Part 4IV: Best Practices

7. Modules and Data Mapping

Appendix

Appendix 1 - Writing your own WSDL

Appendix 2 - Web Services datasheet