Extentrix Web Services For Citrix Presentation Server

Thursday, 16 August 2007 by Michel Roth

Extentrix association with Citrix for me is primarily with their quite funky sounding 'widgets' and 'gadgets' for Presentation Server. Turns out they've got cool software to help out the ones that can't use WISP.

Extentrix also offers something called Web Services for Citrix Presentation Server. This product allows you to make use of Citrix applications from almost any Web application or portal not just WISP or IBM Websphere. Extentrix Web Services for Citrix Presentation Server is a suite of web services APIs that communicate with Citrix Presentation Server.

Extentrix Web Services for Citrix Presentation Server is the connecter between Citrix Presentation Server world and the outside world. Extentrix Web Services connects to a PNAgent site directly using the XML protocol. The PNAgent site in its turn communicates with Citrix Metaframe XML service and gets the data (list of published applications, or ICA content to launch applications). Then the Web Service uses SOAP protocol to deliver information about Citrix Presentation Server�s published applications.

A lot more details are in a Extentrix Web Services For Citrix Presentation Server whitepaper.