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Web services provide Cascade Server users with a powerful way to work with the system by providing a very raw interface with which to interact. This interface provides methods to create, edit, read, and delete all assets and components in the software. Additionally, users can also perform publish requests for files, folders, and pages. Finally, any of these operations are able to be wrapped together in a "batch" request for submitting more than one operation in a single request.

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Web Services Background

Web services leverage the power of XML to communicate using SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol). While most of the time one will use a framework that abstracts the logic away from writing the pure XML requests (such as a PHP SOAP client or Apache Axis), the common denominator are these SOAP messages in the XML format that must conform to the WSDL set forth by Cascade Server.

For more information about SOAP, please see: http://www.w3.org/TR/soap/

WSDL

WSDL is the Web Services Description Language, and it describes all the information that is valid for transmission in a SOAP request and response for a specific web services implementation. It is simply a standard XML file containing descriptive information about how everything in a SOAP request/response is related.

For more information about WSDL, see: http://www.w3.org/TR/wsdl

Web Services End Points

The Cascade Server Asset Operation Endpoint 

Most requests go through the Cascade Server web services endpoint called the AssetOperationService. This Endpoint is responsible for create, read, edit, delete, publish, and batch operations.

You can find a copy of the WSDL for this Endpoint on your local instance at /ws/services/AssetOperationService?wsdl, for instance at http://cascade.mycompany.com:8080/ws/services/AssetOperationService?wsdl.

The Cascade Server Security Endpoint

This endpoint is available to enable an external application to authenticate a user login for Cascade Server. You can find a copy of the WSDL for this Endpoint on your local instance at   /ws/services/SecurityService?wsdl, for instance at http://cascade.mycompany.com:8080/ws/services/SecurityService?wsdl.

Cascade Sample Web Services Project

There is a sample Java project in a Git repository on Hannon Hill's GitHub page to help users get started using the Cascade SOAP Web Services.

To use Git, download it from the website. If you a client installed already, the repository can be cloned using the Git url: git://github.com/hannonhill/Webservices-Java-Sample-Project.git from the GitHub project page.

For users of:

Cascade 6.7.x - checkout the 6.7.x branch or download the source
Cascade 6.0.x-6.4.x - checkout the 6.0-6.4.x branch or download the source

The README explains how to get the sample project imported and built in Eclipse.

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