Alex Little

Something else we’ve been trying to get our heads around is exactly what the IMS Enterprise SDk actually does. My impression (and I now think I was wrong!!) was that it was a self contained java/web services application that you would simply put on you J2EE server and then you could call various web services to get information or put information in and behind this there was a database (or similar!!) storing all the data.

We’ve now&nb;looked a bit closer, and it seems that it’s essentially a wrapper that can help you to expose student/group information via webservices using IMS Enterprise/IMS Enterprise Web Services (the nomenclature is confusing me too!!). So it now appears that in order to demonstrate our grouping toolkit, we’ll also need to build a web service, but just using the IMS Enterprise SDK to help us. I’ll chase this up with the Minted group, as I’m not sure if they had the same (mis!) understanding as I did, if so, they’ll need to build a service too, and it would make sense to collaborate on this.