Generate Web Services for DB2 9 pureXML: A Proof of Concept Technique to Generate Bottom-Up Web Services for XML Data

Overview

Web services are important building blocks to achieve a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). As more and more applications move towards an SOA, often there is a need to expose application functionality as Web services. This paper shows how one can easily generate Web services using a simple Java class to insert and retrieve XML data, into, and from DB2 9 using the pureXML feature. Once the Web services are generated and deployed on the WebSphere Application Server, one can test them using either the built-in Web services Explorer of Rational Application Developer (RAD) or XForms as a Web services client. The same services can be used by any Web services client that can make SOAP over HTTP Web service calls.