Deployment overview

In a production environment, Genero Web Services becomes a part of a global application architecture handled by the Genero Application Server (GAS). The GWS DVMs are managed by the GAS.

This architecture takes care of:

• Security issues

• Scalability

  • Load management

  • Balancing of the SOAP requests amongst the available virtual machines

• Runtime monitoring

For deployment, the GWS Server application must be added to the GAS configuration. See Adding Applications in the GAS manual.

You can:

• Create a GWS Server application that contains a single Web Service.

  This application could be deployed on various physical machines. A Genero Web Services VMProxy (GWSProxy) is started on each machine where the GWS Server application is executed, to manage the requests for a service and manage the DVMs that handle the requests. A single VMProxy can communication with multiple GWS DVMs, and manage the load balancing.

• Create a GWS Server application that contains multiple Web Services.

  The GWSproxy would manage the client requests, dispatching the request to the appropriate DVM and the appropriate web service.