Extentrix Web Services Application Edition 3.0 works on Windows 2003 server, 2000 server; it runs on top of Microsoft Web service and distributed systems technologies which provide the means for software to connect to other software applications in order to build distributed, service-oriented systems. Using this approach provides an easy to use, self-discovered interface to connect to your Citrix Presentation Server Farm.

A Web Service is a software component that is described via WSDL and is capable of being accessed via standard network protocols such as but not limited to SOAP over HTTP.

Extentrix Web Services Application Edition 3.0 communicates with Citrix Metaframe XML service directly and gets the data. Then the Web Service uses SOAP protocol to deliver information about Citrix Presentation Server’s published applications and sessions. The Developer can discover the web service’s APIs via the WSDL (web service description language) and then generate the appropriate proxy that will get the response as SOAP messages which are platform independent.

After connecting to the web service successfully, it’s up to the user to choose the appropriate way to view the retrieved applications. In order to launch the application the ICA client should be installed on the client’s machine.