SOA Publisher Connector

The SOA Publisher Connector is used to define a SOA-enabled Server that is callable from any SOA Client (even from Integration Framework itself, by configuring a SOA Invoker Connector) using the same mechanism as the SOA Listener Connector.

Unlike the SOA Listener Connector, the SOA Publisher Connector is not used to host a generic listener to manage and dispatch the SOAP requests. Instead, it simply allows for the publishing of any non-SOA Datasets (e.g. OLEDB, FILE…etc) to be exposed as an SOA method. This feature is very useful to encapsulate an already defined Dataset in a custom SOA Dataset, callable by any SOA-compliant client.

Note: In order to use the SOA Publisher Connector, it is very important to have at least one, already working non-SOA Dataset. All concepts, parameters and features of this connector are the same as that of the SOA Listener. The only difference between the two connectors is that when creating Datasets for the SOA Publisher Connector, the procedure is different from that used for creating Datasets for the SOA Listener Connector.

IMPORTANT: The SOA Publisher Connector does not start if no Datasets are defined. When you first create the SOA publisher Connector, you must “Save” it without “starting” it.

Setup for the SOA Publisher Connector is the same as that for the Listener Connector. Therefore, please see the steps under the SOA Listener Connector for details on setting up the SOA Publisher Connector.