Accessing the Expere API

The Expere Integrated Enterprise uses a common namespace for all request and response schemas. The namespace is:

http://schemas.bankerssystems.com/2004/ExpereAPI/ExpereIEServices

The binding for the ExpereAPI service is BasicHttpBinding with the following structure:

http://schemas.bankerssystems.com/2004/ExpereAPI/ExpereIEServices/IExpereAPI/[operationName]

In a NET implementation, the Microsoft .NET Framework provides a collection of tools and functions for consuming and producing WSDL documents. A command-line tool, wsdl.exe, creates a proxy class from a WSDL that can be used in .NET applications. You can produce a WSDL document by appending ?WSDL to the URL of a .NET Service. The format looks something like:

http://[servername]/[virtual directory]/[service].svc?wsdl 

An example endpoint, or default URL, for the ExpereAPI service might look like:

http://[servername]/Expere/ExpereAPI.svc?wsdl

There are a couple ways to access the files:

• You can access the files through Windows Explorer and open the service file through a Web browser. Using Windows Explorer, navigate to the Expere directory in the Program Files folder (the default path is C:\Program Files\WKFS\Expere\). From there, you can open the ExpereAPI.svc (C:\Program Files\WKFS\Expere\Services\).
• You can access the files through IIS and browse the directory and service files. The default installation establishes a virtual directory in IIS that can be used to access WSDL files. Using IIS, navigate to the Services/Import virtual directory and browse the ExpereAPI.svc file.