SOA Suite 11g calling external third party web service

Hi All,
Our SOA 11g application needs to communicate with an external third party web service (outside SOA composite and our 11g environment). Basically our SOA application will make a request based on date and the external web service will return a collection of data for that date.
Please suggest how do I achieve this. What inputs will I need from the external third party. I am using SOA 11.1.1.4
Thanks
Edited by: user5108636 on 10/05/2011 19:11

You will need the WSDL of the third party web service to be able to consume it. Based on the wsdl you can generate the request structure then invoke the service.
Also do check with them if there is security associated with the webservice like HTTPS, any soap header that need to be passed, etc ....
Based on this you will need additional configuration on your side.
Thanks,
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