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The WW-Class application is the single database repository of worldwide regulatory classification data for both HP Customs and Export Classification. In addition to classification, WW-Class is also the repository to maintain Hazardous Material, and can be phrased as HP's classification reference server.
The EPR Portfolio-ID is 205410. The Configuration Item-ID / Solution-ID is hpit:a-wwclass-inc.
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The production system is located in the datacentre 1 in Austin, the test system sits in the datacentre 2 in Austin. The application server is running Linux 2.6. The Oracle Cloud Database has version 11gR2.
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WW-Class interfaces with HP's order management, material masters, invoicing, customs declaration and export-licensing applications in all geographies. SAP as well as HP-standard and HP-legacy applications are connected to WW-Class to request and inquire customs and export classifications. WW-Class is supported 24x7 hours in all geographies.
The two functional areas of WW-Class are on one hand the Web User Interface, available for the world wide classification team to classify all requested items. All HP internal users are using the Web User Interface to lookup classifiactions (worldwide). The Web User Interface is also being made available for HP business partners, especially in the logistics and fulfillment area.
The second area is Application Interfacing which allow systematic connections of applications to inquire classifications as well as trigger classification requests. With a library written in C, and another written in Java, we can guarantee connectivity to all current operating systems and host languages.
The API library offers realtime transactions. Batch data-processing is done by the Universal Client utility, provided for both API library versions. Client-server communication is established over HTTP.
The JEE Java Webservices are completing the family of interfaces to WW-Class. It might be employed by such client platforms, which are enabled to build an interface from a WSDL-file. Web services are using the SOAP-protocol, which is standardized by the W3C.
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The project started in 1994 in classical client-server based architecture invoking remote procedure calls. The first web user interface WUI was built in 1996. The first XML-based API was built in 1999. The Enterprise Java-beans were following in 2003.
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