Integrating CAF Services in Composite Views and Processes

You can expose the application services and business objects you have created in your composite application as Web services and use them:

• In Guided Procedures (GP) by exposing them as callable objects
• In Visual Composer as a source of information for composite views

• You have the appropriate rights to work with GP.
• You have configured Visual Composer as described in Prerequisites .
• Your Application Server Java (AS Java) is up and running.

1. Create a composite application.

   More information: Creating Composite Application Development Components

2. Create an application service or a business object.

   More information:

   • Creating Application Services
   • Creating Business Objects
3. Expose the application service or the business object as a Web service.

   Make sure you have generated, built and deployed your application.

   More information: Exposing Application Services or Business Objects as Web Service

4. Optional: Test the Web service in the Service Browser.

   More information: Testing Services with the Service Browser .

5. In the Web Services Navigator of your AS Java, retrieve the WSDL URL of the Web service you have created to use it later when you expose the Web service.

   More information: Testing Web Services in the Web Services Navigator .

6. Integrate the Web service:
   • In GP, expose the Web service as a callable object of type Web Service.
   • In Visual Composer import the Web service to serve as a source of information.

     More information: Discovering Data Services .

• Once you have exposed the Web service as a callable object in GP design time, you can use it as a step in collaborative business processes.
• Once you have added a Web service to the Visual Composer Design board, you are ready to model the component logic and flow by defining view elements and connections. See Composing the Composite View .