BDC Web Man
BDC Web Man can save you many hours by generating all the web service code you need to present your data to the business data catalog.
With business's developing solutions around Service Orientated Architectures they are looking to present their Line of Business data to the Business Data Catalog through web services. The Business Data Catalog however works best when the web service methods match up to the Business Data Catalog method types
eg
BDC Method - Web Service Method
Finder - public List<Customer> GetCustomers()
SpecificFinder - public Customer GetCustomerById(int CustomerId)
IDEnumerator - public List<int> GetCustomerIds()
We've had a number of people work with us through our support channels to get their web services working with the BDC. Through this we have developed a new product to take the pain away from writing all the web service code - BDC Web Man.
Web Services for the BDC Made Easy
The BDC Web Man user interface should be very familiar to users of BDC Meta Man. You create your web service objects similar to how you create entities - by dragging and dropping tables on the design surface. You can also create the association web methods you may want to use. When you are happy with your web services you can click the generate button and all the code that may have taken you hours to hand write is generated for you as a WCF HttpBasic Web Service.
BDC Web Man currently generates web services for MS SQL Server and Oracle.
See it in Action
We've split this screen cast into two sections.
1, Creating web services with BDC Web Man
2, Using your generated web services with BDC Meta Man and the Business Data Catalog
Get it Now
Download a trial of BDC Web Man by clicking here.
Upcoming Updates
BDC Web Man currently generates web service layer for Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle. In future updates we'll have ODBC as a data source.
Buy
You can buy the Professional version of BDC Web Man for just $600.00. Go to our
order page to get your license key now.
Software maintenance is 20% of the purchase price per year and includes:
- Product updates, including for new versions of SharePoint
- Unlimited technical support via email, phone and remote desktop