Asynchronous Web Services

Asynchronous web services are used to represent third-party web services as processes. The process will trigger a web service in a remote system and reach status Running. The web service updates the status in Redwood Server once the web service process has finished.

Prerequisites

The following requirements must be met

  • a free slot in WebServices.OutboundServer.limit and ProcessServerService.External.limit for a credential to the third-party web service. The number of soap credentials for a given endpoint you can create is limited by the WebServices.OutboundServer.limit and ProcessServerService.External.limit license keys; when you have both license keys, the most restrictive applies. Note that the ProcessServerService.External.limit license key is also used by other Process Server types such as Platform Agents and SAP connectors.
  • a credential for the third-party web service
  • web service must implement ServerAddress and JobId parameters
  • callback to UpdateJob1 web service at ServerAddress with JobId and FinalStatus as Out parameters.
  • basic authentication is required
  • Completion strategy must be set to External

Tip: You can remove the parameters from the Parameters tab, as they cannot be set/changed by end users.

Example

Setting the Completion Strategy to External

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//[...]

SOAPRequest req = SOAP.createSOAPRequestFromJob();
//Set completion strategy to external
jcsJobContext.setCompletionStrategy(CompletionStrategyType.External);

//[...]

See Also

webservice