When accessing Actuate’s web services, you create a library of proxy objects for the client application. In Java, a proxy object is a class implementation in a JAR file. In C#, a proxy is a CS file.
Use a proxy object directly. Actuate does not support subclassing an Information Delivery API (IDAPI) class generated from an Actuate WSDL document.
To ensure high availability of an IDAPI application accessing an iHub cluster, set up a load balancer between the application and the cluster. Using a load balancer also distributes IDAPI requests evenly across the nodes in the cluster.
Access proxy objects using a request and response pattern. As Figure 10‑1 shows, the client uses a proxy object to send a SOAP request to BIRT iHub and receives a response in the client’s native language.
1 BIRT iHub sends the Information Delivery API schema over the web in response to a client query.
2 The client generates a proxy object that corresponds to a service or an operation in Actuate’s schema.
At this point, you build or modify a client application.
3 The deployed client application calls a proxy object.
4 Using the proxy, the client generates a SOAP request, adds an HTTP header, and sends this serialized XML package to BIRT iHub over the web.
5 BIRT iHub processes the SOAP message header, deserializes the SOAP envelope, and invokes the appropriate service. In the preceding diagram, the Factory service processes the request.
6 The service serializes the result, creates the response XML, places the encoded result into a SOAP response, and returns the package to the client application. The application then extracts and decodes the result.
