CICS conditionally complies with WS-I Basic Profile 1.1 in that
it adheres to all the MUST level requirements. However, CICS does not
specifically implement support for UDDI registries, and therefore the points
relating to this in the specification are ignored. Also the Web services assistant
jobs and associated runtime environment are not fully compliant with this
Profile, as there are limitations in the support of mapping certain schema
elements.
See High level language and XML schema mapping for
a list of unsupported schema elements.
Conformance targets identify what artifacts (e.g. SOAP message, WSDL description)
or parties (e.g. SOAP processor, end user) that the requirements apply to.
The conformance targets supported by CICS are:
- MESSAGE
- Protocol elements that transport the ENVELOPE (e.g. SOAP over HTTP messages).
- ENVELOPE
- The serialization of the soap:Envelope element and its
content.
- DESCRIPTION
- The description of types, messages, interfaces and their protocol and
data format bindings, and network access points associated with Web services
(e.g. WSDL descriptions).
- INSTANCE
- Software that implements a wsdl:port.
- CONSUMER
- Software that invokes an INSTANCE.
- SENDER
- Software that generates a message according to the protocol associated
with it
- RECEIVER
- Software that consumes a message according to the protocol associated
with it.