When your application uses Web Services to service user requests, Splunk AppDynamics intercepts the Web Service invocations and names requests based on the Web Service action names and operation name. A Web Service entry point is a Web Service endpoint that is being invoked.

This is relevant only when the Web Service invocation is part of the entry point tier or in cases where the transaction should be continued in a downstream tier using a correlation header transported in the SOAP Envelope.

Web Service invocations are usually preceded by a dispatcher Servlet, but identification is deferred to the Web Service endpoints. This configuration ensures that the requests are identified or correlated based on the Web Service or its payload and not based on the generic URL for the dispatcher Servlet.