Creo Elements/Direct Manager Web Services provide interfaces for web services-based integration to the Creo Elements/Direct Manager Server database. The Creo Elements/Direct Manager Web Services support a set of web service messages to read or create information in the database.

The Web Services are automatically installed when you install the Services (Web Services, Task Agent) from the Creo Elements/Direct product family installation DVD.

The Web Services are implemented in a layered architecture. External applications communicate with a servlet engine. Creo Elements/Direct Manager uses the Jetty servlet container (http://jetty.codehaus.org) as the underlying technology. The Jetty Server forwards these requests to one or more worker processes (“Jetty Worker”) which read or write to the database. Each Jetty Worker has full Creo Elements/Direct Model Manager functionality. The Jetty Server communicates via Java Remote Method Invocation (RMI) with the Jetty Workers.