AMS 360 Web Service Overview

The AMS 360 Web Service Application Programming Interface (WSAPI) allows authorized users to perform various operations on AMS 360 data. The agency may control which operations and what data may be accessed by a given WSAPI user by configuring access for that user during user setup and maintenance. The goal of WSAPI is to provide safe and useful access to AMS 360 data by external applications.

WSAPI is organized around the concept of entities. An entity is a collection of related data on which operations may be performed. For example, the customer entity allows access to and the ability to update AMS 360 customer data. Operations on entities are classified into 4 categories: Retrieval, Insertion, Updating and Deleting. These categories are used by the agency in specifying the operations permitted on a specific entity for a WSAPI user. Operations on entities are performed by calling web methods, passing necessary data and receiving data as a result of the call.

All web methods support industry standards as defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) using Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP). The entire WSAPI interface is described in a single Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) document.

AMS 360 Web Service Version 2 Features

The following table summarizes the types of operations that WSAPI supports for each of its entities. It is important to keep in mind, however, that just because WSAPI supports a particular type of operation for an entity it does not mean that that type of operation will be available to all WSAPI users for that entity. An agency has the ability to select which types of operations on each entity are available to each WSAPI user the agency defines.