This chapter provides an overview of how you can write client applications to use the web services offered by the PowerCenter Web Services Provider. The general discussion on the steps to create a client application is followed by examples of how to create client applications in the Java and .NET frameworks.

To create a client application for the PowerCenter web services, you need the web service WSDL and a web service toolkit. Web services toolkits make it easy to create client applications by generating client-side proxy classes from the web service WSDL. You can use the Microsoft .NET and Apache Axis web services toolkits to write client applications for the PowerCenter web services.

You can create a client application to run PowerCenter batch or real-time web services. The application development follows the same basic steps.