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The Web Service Linker automatically creates cross-technology call links between client (front end) and server (back end) objects. For example, AngularJS front end connected to JEE/Spring MVC back end (click to enlarge):
CAST Imaging
The information generated by the extension is also used in CAST Imaging for the User Guide - Application to Application dependencies scope - see the section Where do the links come from?
How does it do it?
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| End-users do not need to interact or configure the Web Services Linker extension, all configuration is automatic. |
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| HTTP GET Service |
| HTTP PUT Service |
| HTTP DELETE Service |
| HTTP POST Service HTTP PATCH Service SOAP Service |
The Web Service Linker searches for objects stored in the CAST Analysis Service schema whose type inherits from CAST_ResourceService or CAST_WebServiceLinker_Resource. These objects represent queries to web services on the client side. Then it searches for the web services on the server side: these are objects whose type inherits from CAST_WebService_Operation or CAST_WebServiceLinker_Operation.
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For the following technology see gRPC-java - 1.0:
- gRPC
Direct Web Remoting - Function Call
The connection is made via two "root" objects:
| Call to a DWR service method |
| A DWR service method |
For more details about DWR technology see Direct Web Remoting.
Program Call
The connection is made via two "root" objects:
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