Publishing and Discovering Web Services

Context

SAP provides the Services Registry for Web services publication and discovery.

Procedure

  1. Publish your service to the Services Registry.

    • For service definitions developed on AS ABAP, use the SOA Manager (transaction SOAMANAGER).

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    • For service definitions developed in AS Java, use SOA Management in the SAP NetWeaver Administrator.

      More information: Publishing to the Services Registry

    • The Services Registry provides a function for publishing service definitions.

      More information: Publishing Service Definitions Using the Services Registry

    • In Enterprise Services Repository, you can publish activated service interfaces that are not yet configured.

      More information: Publishing Service Interfaces

  2. Discover services either directly in the Services Registry or in your development tools.

    More information: Searching and Browsing Service Definitions , Importing WSDL Documents in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio