Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition Features

Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition Server comes with lots of features which exist to simplify the process of connecting to Citrix Presentation Server.

Enhanced Performance

The Performance of Extentrix Web Services 2.0 – Application Edition is enhanced by connecting directly to Citrix XML service rather than using intermediate hubs like PNAgent site.

Extra APIs

Extentrix Web Services 2.0 – Application Edition provides more APIs that add more functionalities such as returning all disconnected sessions for the given client, disconnecting the active sessions created by the requesting client, logging off the active sessions created by the requesting client, getting a list of all servers in the farm which supports the given server and client types, and getting an alternative address for a given server address.

Enhanced Error Handling Mechanism

With Extentrix Web Services 2.0 – Application Edition, say goodbye for unknown error exceptions. Implementing an effective error handling strategy ensures the following:

• Errors do not go undetected.
• Applications do not terminate abruptly without warning or explanation.
• Components are robust and predictable.
• After an error, application stability is restored.
• Error messages offer the user a meaningful description of an error.
• Error messages offer the user advice that may remedy a problem and avoid unnecessary support calls.
• Error messages offer sufficient information for support personnel to quickly identify known problems.
• Errors are logged to avoid incorrect reporting by users during support calls.
• Error logs can be viewed and cleared easily.
• The cause of an error can be determined more easily allowing defects to be corrected more easily.

Standard Means of Communication

Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition provides a standard means of communication with Citrix Presentation Server among different software applications, running on a variety of platforms and/or frameworks because it uses the standard SOAP protocol in communication messages. Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition will service any application talks SOAP.

Platform Independent and Simple to Integrate

Extentrix Web Services 1.5 for Citrix Presentation Server is a platform and language independent, not important what programming language you use or on which platform you are working on. Just add a web proxy for Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition, and experience how nice it is. And since Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition is a platform and programming language independent, it’s simple to integrate it with any application written on any programming language, running on any platform.

Ability to support many functionalities

Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition supports lots of functionalities, which you will need during your connection to Citrix Presentation Server. It will help you get information about a published application for a specific client with the specified details, server types, and client types. It also returns the ICA file description to be used to launch an application with a given parameter and checks the user's credentials and returns true if they are valid.

Nice User Interface

Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition comes with a nice, friendly, easy to manage console that helps you create new web service, edit existing one, browse and manage your web services.

Supports Security

Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition helps you in securing your web services. Today, HTTPS and BASIC authentication are often used to secure Web service communications. While this simple transport-level security is sufficient for simple, point-to-point Web services, their use is vulnerable to security breaches in multi-hop networked interactions. Further, there are underlying performance issues inherent in HTTP-S. HTTP-S supports only a one user credential per connection, so a highly-scaled server-to-server communication might require hundreds or thousands of connections, a huge scalability

challenge. By contrast, Web Service Security works by specifying security policy at the SOAP message level. Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition enables you to attach a policy file to your web services at creation time.
Policy supports automation with tools and infrastructure. Because these communications contracts can and do change over time (in response to new regulatory requirements, for example), these benefits are not one-time events, so use of Policy reduces on-going workload as well. In sum, Policy enhances the flexibility of SOA implemented using Web services, and it does so in an open and interoperable way. But in this release, security is limited to X.509 certificate, which may be used to validate a public key that may be used to authenticate a message or to identify the public key with which a message has been encrypted.

Ability to connect to many farms

With Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition management console it is very simple to connect to as many farms as you want, with IIS like view, to give you the feeling that you are familiar with.

Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition Server is very simple to use, with powerful tools, nice UI and rich functionality.

Now, it is very simple to access Citrix Presentation Server world, thanks to Extentrix Web Services 2.0 - Application Edition APIs.