This blog will keep focus on Siebel Web Services development. With the complex Siebel UI, people prefer to use Siebel as backend, and expose the Siebel functionalty using Web Services. Web Services are easy to configure but hard to test. Thats the challage one has to face after development. Siebel provides wizards for Web Service creation.

First lets simplify the confusion of Outbound and Inbound Web Services. So, lets see what it looks if we see from Siebel end. If Siebel invokes some third party application to query data or update/insert data, it will Siebel Outbound Web Service. And similarly on the contrary, if a third party application invokes Siebel for querying or insert/update, it will be Siebel Inbound Web Service.

PART 1: How to Design the Siebel Outbound Web Services