Glossary

Web Service: Web service refers to a modular application that can be invoked through the Internet. The consumers of Web services are other computer applications that communicate, usually over HTTP, using XML standards including SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. Web services allow application integration through different standards.

SOAP: Simple Object Access Protocol. SOAP is the standard by which Web services communicate to each other. SOAP is a light-weight protocol originally designed by Microsoft and IBM for exchanging messages between computer software, typically in the form of software components. The word object implies that the use should adhere to the object-oriented programming paradigm.

Group: Visual grouping of a set of Web services in the Services Tree

Operation: Web services are nothing but a collection of operations. In actuality JaxView is not a Web service management tool but and operation management tool. For example a Web service called StockQuotes might include an operation called GetQuote that retrieves the value of a particular stock and an operation called SetQuote sets the value of a stock quote.

Monitor: Monitors are modules that reside in between a web service provider and consumer and perform function on the message traveling between two web services. In JaxView monitors act more like monitors. They generate user defined metrics from the messages.

Message: The objects being communicated between Web services in the way of SOAP.

WSDL: Web service description language, is a language for describing how to interface with XML-based services. Numerous XML standards have emerged that provide structure to the content exchanged by applications. Such content can be sent and received over a variety of transport protocols. To invoke a service, a consuming application must know the service’s interface, including how to structure content and which transport protocol to use. WSDL explicitly describes this interface in a standardized, machine-readable format fit for consumption by tools.

Assigned Object: Objects could be assigned to other objects. Please read the section on Object Assignment to learn more about what this means.

SOAP Services: SOAP services are services that use the SOAP protocol for communicating with other Web services. These are also called Standards Based Services

REST Services: REST services are services that are built using the REST architecture. These are all Non-Standards based services.

JaxView Proxy: JaxView can be configured to be used as a Proxy Server. This feature is important for REST services that do not support generic handlers installed at the container level.

Disabled Object: An object that is disabled by the user. The disabled object will have an icon representation like the following form

Alert Disabled:

Object Status: Only monitors have a status. But in the Services Tree an operation can will have a status that is the sum of all of its monitors. So for an operation to have a status of GOOD all of its monitors need to have a status of GOOD. Objects that have not received any data will look like :