XML API Overview

The Webex Meetings XML Application Programming Interface (Webex Meetings XML API) enables you to manage XML Services, which can be used to set up and manage Webex Meetings collaboration services.

The Webex Meetings products provide services that involve a few key entities. The primary entities are the following:

• Webex Meetings
• Users

Webex Meetings services such as creating a user, modifying information about a user, creating a meeting, exchanging files, and so on, are implemented via a set of operations. You can use these Webex Meeting operations to facilitate specific aspects of Webex Meetings online sessions. You can deploy these Webex Meetings services through the exchange of well-formed XML documents between your application or service and a Webex Meetings server.

To access Webex Meetings services through the exchange of XML documents, you must design your application to send XML request documents to the Webex Meetings XML server and to process the received responses.

The XML API is a comprehensive set of services supporting most aspects of the Webex Meetings services. Webex Meetings maintains a database of user and site data. Your application or service and Webex Meetings exchange this data using XML, which allows your application or service to interact with Webex Meetings independent of how Webex Meetings stores the information internally. To help ensure that the meanings and the boundaries for each unit of data are well preserved, Webex Meetings standardizes the format of XML data exchanges between your application or service and the Webex Meetings servers by requiring them to conform to the XML Schema Definition (XSD). Documents that comply with the XSD are the only type of XML document supported in the two-way XML flow between your application and the Webex Meetings servers.

Various XML request and response messages enable you to retrieve and change the information within those services. To optimize flexibility when making requests, the Webex Meetings server can handle more complex and lengthy stretches of markup that includes request control elements in addition to the elements of a particular operation.

The following figure provides a simplified representation of the architecture of the Webex Meetings XML Model Architecture:

Further Information

• Webex Meetings XML API Services
• Webex Meetings XML API Reference Guide
• Webex Meetings XML API Release Notes, Schemas, and Customer Care Messages
• Code Samples
• XML API FAQs