I was working on requirement that involved call to a web service published by another Siebel Application which means Publisher and Consumer were both Siebel Application.
In Siebel User Authorization can happen in two ways

WSSE (Web Service Security) Headers in SOAP Request
SOAP Headers

I was involved in giving a Siebel Demo to some clients few days back and had an interesting conversation regarding Middleware while presenting the demo.
Client had an assumption that having implementing integrations using middleware will result in reduced complexity and increase manageability and doing the same integration with web services will result in increased complexity [...]

In last two posts we learned how to set and get a property in property set (Siebel Message). In this post we will learn how to Set and Get an element value in XML Hierarchy. If you don’t quite know the difference between XML Hierarchy and Siebel Message then I recommend going through this post [...]

In this post we will try to get a property from a property set using Echo method. I will extend the same workflow and add one more step to it making it a 3 step process. Our New step will be called Get Property and now our workflow will look like
 
This new step will retrieve [...]

In this post we will see how to use Workflow Utilities, Echo method to set a property in a property set or a Siebel message. Here is how our workflow will look like.
Step 1. Use PRM ANI Utility service to generate an empty Siebel Message set using an existing Integration Object
Step 2. Use Workflow Utilities [...]

Workflow Utilities is not a well known business service, one of the reason for this is bad documentation. It may not be well known BS but it has a method name ‘Echo’ which is quite important and useful to know especially if you are working in Siebel EAI. I knew a bit about this business [...]

 The most difficult error that I fixed during this web service implementation was when there was no error.
Confused ???
 Let me make it simple. After fixing the errors mentioned in previous post my workflow executed successfully but web service returned below mentioned error response

 All right now let’s get on to the different problems and their solutions that I faced while working on this Outbound Web Service. Most of the problems that I faced were when I tried to use workflows.
 Error:
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Argument ‘SiebelMessage’ in step ‘Set Child Type’ is not correctly initialized or does not return valid data.(SBL-BPR-00107)
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In previous post I mentioned that there are other ways to achieve our requirement. So, I am going to discuss another approach, which involves less scripting (in fact very less) and workflows.
Our invocation method is going to remain the same Named Method n user property but now it will invoke a workflow instead of a [...]

We successfully created Web Service record in previous post and in this post we will do the following:

Create a button on Contact Form Applet with caption as “Lookup” and method name as “LookupCountry”.
Create two new fields “IP Address” and “IP Country” on Contact BC
Expose these two fields on Contact Form Applet
When we click on Lookup [...]