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title: "CICS web services an awesome feature integrates User interface (2 of 3)"
description: "A Web service is a software system identified by a URI, whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. Its definition can be discovered by other software systems. These syst..."
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date: 2012-12-23
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# CICS web services an awesome feature integrates User interface (2 of 3)

A Web service is a software system identified by a URI, whose public interfaces and bindings are defined and described using XML. Its definition can be discovered by other software systems. These systems may then interact with the Web service in a manner prescribed by its definition,using XML based messages conveyed by internet protocols.

Related[CICS Invoking Web Service – How to Fix Errors 13 and 14](https://srinimf.com/2015/01/29/cics-invoke-web-service-error-response-13-and-14/)

**A webservice contains:**

WEBSERVICE definition
– Defines the application specific
details for a web service request
• Defines the execution environment for
Web Service application
– PIPELINE
• Name of the pipeline where this
WEBSERVICE is to be installed
– WSBIND
• HFS name of the WS Binding file
– WSDLFILE
• HFS name of the WSDL file
– VALIDATION
• Run time SOAP message validation
against WSDL schema

Related[CICS PIPELINE Complete Information](https://srinimf.com/2015/11/07/cics-pipeline-complete-information/)

Check [here](http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27007870&aid=1) for more info.

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