The web service hosted by EAI software components has only one operation (or method) to fetch part information from the ERP system. The service operation viz., ESIOperation provides cost and available quantity information. ESIOperation uses a style of document and a use of literal for messaging. The operation accepts a SOAP request as input that conforms to the schema detailed in ESIQueryPartInfoRequest.xsd. The XML schema for the input request has number and distribution target information for a published part. The output is a SOAP response that conforms to the schema in ESIQueryPartInfoResponse.xsd..The XML schema for the output response has cost and available quantity information for the published part.

Input - ESIQueryRequest

Output – ESIQueryResponse

Fault – ESIQueryError

See the Windchill Enterprise Systems Integration Open Application Programming Interface Guide for more details.