A Web
service is an interface that enables communication between distributed
applications, even if the applications are written in different programming
languages or are running on different operating systems.
After a SAS Data Integration Studio
job has been deployed as a stored process, you can select the stored process in the Inventory
tree or the Folders tree and deploy it as a Web service. Code is generated for the
Web service and the code is saved to a file in a
source repository. Metadata about the Web service is saved to the current
metadata server. The Web service can be executed as required by a Web service client.
To deploy a job as a Web service, perform the following tasks:
After the job has been deployed, the user responsible for executing the deployed job
can use the
appropriate Web service client to access and execute the job. Before deploying a job
as a Web service, you might want to review the general prerequisites that are described
in
Prerequisites for Web Service Jobs and the specific
requirements that are described in
Requirements for Web Service Jobs.