This manual describes these web services, and how to use them.
All IIR web services are implemented as free-standing servers rather than as servlets. No web application server like IBM Websphere Application Server (WAS), Microsoft BizTalk or Apache Tomcat is required.
SOAP
All IIR web services use the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). Both SOAP version 1.1 and SOAP version 1.2 are supported. A SOAP 1.1 request will receive a SOAP 1.1 response from the IIR web services; conversely, a SOAP 1.2 request will receive a SOAP 1.2 response.
Unicode
All IIR web services use Unicode. Messages may be sent in UTF-8 or UTF-16. Responses will use the same character set as the original request.