This tutorial 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.

Who is this tutorial for?

This tutorial is intended for Business Engineers that have some technical affinity that intend to either call a foreign web service with Blueriq, or that intend to create their own web service using Blueriq. You are expected to know the Blueriq basics, but now knowledge of web services is needed to start.

Organization of this tutorial

This tutorial is divided into five parts

• An introduction to web services
• Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
• Representation State Transfer (REST)
• Blueriq as a service
• Best Practices

Part 1: An introduction to web services

Part 2: Calling a Soap service

Part 3: Calling a Rest service

Part 4: Blueriq as a service

Part 5: Best Practices