The SharperLending web services brings the tightest interoperability imaginable for lenders and service providers to the mortgage industry. Our web services is broken down into a number of web methods, each of which performs a lender-based or vendor-based function within the confines of the web services. Method functions range from requesting and receiving completed reports and report statuses, summaries of loan and report progress, retrieving report outputs, validating credentials, getting vendor and product lists and individual names, generating bundled service workflows, and many others. New methods are continuously being developed to cater to the individual aspects of nearly any process or application.

Software Applications
Flexibility is the key to the SharperLending web services. Applications developed in any development platform/tool, including Microsoft Visual C#, Apache, J2EE, IBM WebSphere, Macromedia Flash, etc., can implement a data sharing interface to SharperLending. Development work usually consists of creating a new or adding to an existing project, importing the Web Reference, coding the object, and coding the method call. Once done, this work can be compiled and quickly validated.

Data
Most methods need only be called once to obtain specific data. Data can either be stored locally in third party software for quick reference, or it can be stored in SharperLending for retrieval in 30 seconds or less.

Secure data is shared through standard MISMO v2.1-formatted XML request and response processes. XML can be posted from a third party application to the web method by either conforming to XML parameters, or plain raw XML. Third party service providers only need to be able to generate XML requests and consume XML responses in their application to implement a system-to-system interface.

The type of response data returned depends on the development platform and the specific XML parameter that’s included in the request. Applications developed and maintained in Microsoft Visual Studio.NET can request and receive a String, a Dataset (Ds=), or an XML Node (XmlNode XN=) per method call. Applications developed and maintained in other development platforms can request and receive a String or an XML Node (XmlNode XN=) per method call.

Actual reports will be returned either in XML-formatted HTML, or in a base 64-encoded XML-formatted PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader). Any encoded XML must be decoded to view the report.

Specifications
SharperLending, LLC, developer and owner of the SharperLending Web Services, offers parties interested in integration a full software specification. This includes an implementation guide, a sample Web Services tester application, and actual commented code that the Web Services tester application was developed with. Managers and developers can use our specification to quickly and easily build a foundation of knowledge, create a sample project, test it, compare it with the sample application that’s included if necessary, and view actual code samples. Web services interface implementation is quick and easy with this process.

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