An external web service exposes one or more operations that the business entity services can call. Each operation has a request and response type. Business entity services send the record data with the required service parameters to external services. You can configure calls to the external web services for certain steps in the execution logic. Based on the logic that you implement, requests go from

Data Director

to update the record data. The external services might modify the data, if required.

In the Provisioning tool, configure the business entity and the events for which you want to call the external service. In the Provisioning tool, upload the WSDL file for the external service and register the SOAP service and operation. Bind the service to specific business entities and events.

Use the WSDL file in the Resource Kit to understand the service, operations, methods, and the data types that the service methods exchange. The

custom-logic-service.wsdl

file for the external web services is in the following Resource Kit location:

C:\<infamdm installation directory>\hub\resourcekit\samples\BESExternalCall\source\resources\webapp\WEB-INF\wsdl\

The Resource Kit includes sample code that implements custom logic and validation. When you install the Resource Kit, the

bes-external-call.ear

file for the sample custom logic and validation is deployed on the application server.