Displaying WSDL

Use

You can, for a service interface from the Enterprise Services Repository and additional configuration data, create a Web Service description and save the Web Service description as WSDL file. You can then, for example, hand these files out to business partners, who do not have access to the content in the ES Repository. The business partner can send a message to the Advanced Adapter Engine on the basis of the WSDL description. The WSDL description contains all the necessary configuration data on the basis of which the massage can then be processed.

You have the following options for generating a WSDL description:

  • Create the WSDL description on the basis of an already defined, integrated configuration.

    If the inbound processing for your preferred communication scenario has already been configured, then you can create the WSDL description directly from the corresponding integrated configuration. The configuration data contained in the integrated configuraiton will then automatically be taken into consideration.

  • Manually enter the service interface and configuration data into a wizard.

    If you select this option, you must create all necessary infromation manually using the wizard.

Note that the WSDL descriptions are created according to the W3C Standard Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1.

This means that the WSDL description does not yet contain any definitions regarding policies, user names, passwords or, for example, timeouts. Note that the WSDL description still therefore needs to be manually completed with all this information.

Procedure

Create the WSDL description on the basis of an already defined configuration object.

Perform the following steps:

  1. Open the integrated configuration.

  2. In the object editor menu, choose Start of the navigation pathIntegrated Configuration Next navigation step Display WSDLEnd of the navigation path.

    The WSDL description is created.

    If you save the WSDL description, you can then, for example, provide a business partner with the file.

    Note, that this URL remains stable so long as you do not change the integrated configuraiton as well as the assignment to the communication channel.

Manually enter the service interface and configuration data into a wizard.

Perform the following steps:

  1. In the Integration Builder (Integration Directory) menu bar choose Start of the navigation pathTools Next navigation step Display WSDLEnd of the navigation path.

    A wizard starts.

  2. Choose Continue.

  3. Enter the URL of the server (of the Advanced Adapter Engine) that is to process the message.

  4. Choose Continue.

  5. Specify a service interface from the Enterprise Services Repository for which you want to create the Web service document.

    Use the input help.

  6. Choose Continue.

  7. Enter the sender of the message (party, communication component, and outbound interface).

    The information about the sender of the message (party, service, and outbound interface) is required to complete the message header with the corresponding information.

  8. Choose Continue.

    An overview of all the information that will be used to create the WSDL description is then displayed.

  9. Choose Finish.

    The WSDL description is displayed. You can save the WSDL description as a file or display it in your browser.