Imixs Workflow ...the open source workflow technology for business applications

RESTful API

Overview

The Imixs XML & Web Service components provide an XML api and XML schema to describe the Imixs business objects in xml as also web services to provide business logic in a standardized open way. Web services are said to be "loosely coupled" because the client of a web service dosen't have to know its implementation details like the Imixs JEE implementation. This makes it mostly easy to use web services. The consumer is able to invoke a web service using a self-explanatory interface describing the available business methods. The underlying implementation can be done in any language (Java, Visual Basic, C#, etc.).

The Imixs XML & Web Sevice components are divided into three subcomponents which provide the general XML API as also the Web Service implementations to provide and to consume Web Services using different technologies.

This XML & Web Service components are typical included into an Imixs Workflow Enterprise Application to provide Web Service Interfaces. But the components are also used by the Imixs Eclipse Modeler Plugin. So these components did not depend only on the JEE Framework.

XML API - JAXB

The Imixs XML API provides XML Dataobjects to exchanged data between an Imixs Workflow Implementation and a service client. The API provides also Client implementations for consuming SOAP or REST Services provided by an Workflow Enterprise Application.

The Imixs XML API is based on the JAXB specification (JSR-222). These means that you can integrate the library very easy in any java framework.

REST Services - JAX-RS

The Imixs REST Service implementation is a full featured REST Service Provider based on the JAX-RS specification (JSR-311). The library can be bundled with a Imixs Workflow Enterprise Application together with the Imixs-JEE components.

SOAP Services - JAX-WS

The Imixs SOAP Service implementation is a full featured Web Service Service Provider using SOAP based on the JAX-WS specification (JSR-224). The library can be bundled with a Imixs Workflow Enterprise Application together with the Imixs-JEE components.