web services

Web Services

Wisconsin Projects

Gerry Coleman

Crime Information Bureaucoleman@doj.state.wi.us

• Web Services: the protocol• Web Services: the architecture

• Network architecture• Distributed data

This is not “Web Services”

Application

(computer program)

UserData

A tightly coupled, (in house?) relationship between an

application and data is not Web Services

The connection between a user and an application is never Web Services

This is “Web Services”

Application

(computer program)

User

The connection between a user and an application is never Web Services

Application

(computer program)

The user’s application is using Web Services to obtain data

from another application.

Data

Application

(computer program)

Application

(computer program)Data

Web Services Interface

Server to

Server

Microsoft .NET

(application server)

IBM WebSphere

(application server)

Application

(computer program)

Application

(computer program)

Server

Server

Web Services Interface

Microsoft .NET

(application server)

IBM WebSphere

(application server)

eTIME

(computer program)

XMR

(computer program)

Web Services Interface

Wisconsin

Web Services: the protocol

Web Services: the protocol

User Application

(Message Switch?)

(Record Mgt System?)

User

The connection between a browser and a remote application is never Web Services

Protocol is HTTP(s)

Data Application

(NLETS XMR?)

The user’s application is using Web Services to obtain data

from another application.

Browser

Browser

User Application

Data Application

Data Application

Data Application

Data Application

Data Application

Data Application

Web Services: the architecture

User Network Architecture

Data Network

Network “BUS”

To Do . . .

• Every data source needs a Web Services face

• Standardize reference documents (output from a data source)

• Standardize reference transactions (input/inquiry to a data source)

• Redefine networks

• Establish domain name services