Suggest : WebService development approach to serve high volume of requests , any licensing considerations on sessions limits ?

[SandeepKutwal]

Hi All , We would like to develop , deploy & expose webservice from BluePrism which would be called/consumed by external interface / third party tool to send and receive information . The consumer of webservice will send /post some information which will be added in work queue for further processing by bot. Below are some of queries that we have related to this approach , PS Note : We have only one runtime resource (only one robot ) to deploy webservice . 1. What is the preferred webservice type , SOAP or REST ? Assumption is that REST webservice is not having native support in Blueprism tool , still it can be developed using some customization or by using VBOs 2. Is every request from consumer of webservice considered as new session in BluePrism ? 3. Is there are any limitations on number of calls that webservice consumers can do ? Is there any impact of number of webservice calls on licensing part of concurrent sessions ? 4. Is there any saparate licensing for webservices part in BluePrism - pls specify Request all to suggest best design , considerations , challenges for hosting Webservices at BluePrism that could enable catering of high volumes (in number) of requests in single bot scenario. Regards, Sandeep Kutwal

[John__Carter]

1. SOAP 2. Depends on configuration - see https://portal.blueprism.com/system/files/product/productpublic/5.0/Blu… 3. The resource will have finite capacity for simultaneous calls. Licensing limits the number of concurrent sessions, so yes it could have an effect. 4. No I think you idea of simply adding inputs to a queue is the best option - keep the BP process/object logic to a minimum so make the WS call brief.

[OskarsLapins]

Hi John, I am not able to follow the link you provided in step 2. Is there an updated link? Best Regards

[John__Carter]

It was a link to the Web Services guide, which you can find in the Documents section.