External SOAP Service Technology Key Concepts

Licenses that use an external SOAP service license technology are generated by a service that implements the FlexNet Operations LicenseGeneratorService Web Services Description Language (WSDL), an XML-based interface definition language that is used for describing the functionality offered by a web service. The external service is deployed in an application server independent of FlexNet Operations, as shown in the figure below, and is accessed by FlexNet Operations at run time for operations such as product and license model validation and license generation. The URL to the external service is linked to the custom generator when the license technology is created in FlexNet Operations.