Web services in ax 2012
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This document discusses web services and how to consume web services in Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012. It defines web services as application components that communicate using open protocols and XML. The benefits of web services include exchanging data between different applications and platforms, solving interoperability issues, and reusing application components. It provides steps to consume an external web service in AX 2012, which includes creating a reference to the web service, calling the web service from the X++ proxy library, and writing a job to access the web service.
Web services in ax 2012
- 2. Web Services in AX 2012 2 Confiz Limited
- 3. 3 Confiz Limited Agenda: • What are Web Services? • Why web services? • Consuming Web Services in AX 2012 • Demo
- 4. Confiz Limited What are Web Services? Web services are application components Web services communicate using open protocols Web services are self-contained and self-describing Web services can be used by other applications XML is the basis for Web services
- 5. Confiz Limited Why web services? Using Web services you can exchange data between different applications and different platforms. Web services help solve the interoperability problem by giving different applications a way to link their data. Reusable application components. Ideally, there will only be one type of each application component, and anyone can use it in their application. Using Web services your application can publish its function or message to the rest of the world.
- 6. Consuming Web Services in AX 2012 • Usually, there come business scenarios where we need to consume external web services in Dynamics AX 2012. • To consume an external Web service, you must: Create a reference to the web service Call the web service from the X++ Code Studio proxy library Adding a service reference www.confiz.com 6
- 7. Creating Reference to the Web Service 1. Create a new project. www.confiz.com 7
- 8. Creating Reference to the Web Service • In Solution Explorer, right-click the project name, and then click Add Service Reference. www.confiz.com 8
- 9. • In the Add Service Reference dialog box, type the URL for the Web service in the Address box and and click ‘GO’ to validate the web service. www.confiz.com 9 Creating Reference to the Web Service
- 10. Creating Reference to the Web Service • Build and add the project to the AOT www.confiz.com 10
- 11. • Set the deployment properties. • Right-click on the project and click on Deploy. www.confiz.com 11 Creating Reference to the Web Service
- 12. • Add a reference of ConsumingWebService.dll file to AOT in Dynamics AX 2012. www.confiz.com 12 Consuming Web Services
- 13. Consuming Web Services • Write a job in X++ in AX 2012 to access the web service. www.confiz.com 13
- 14. Consuming Web Services • Below is the output of the job www.confiz.com 14
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