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You can use the SOA Manager to administer and configure service providers and consumer proxies for a local system.

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Communication Between a Consumer Proxy and a Provider Proxy

Communication between the service consumer and the service is established between the consumer proxy’s logical port the provider proxy’s endpoint. To access a service endpoint, a service consumer with a runtime configuration sends a call through a logical port.

The logical port of the service consumer contains a reference to the unique address (URL) of the service’s endpoint on the provider system. The logical port also contains the authorization needed to call the service methods.

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A logical port can send a call to only one service endpoint. However, a service endpoint can be called through more than one logical port.

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Prerequisites

  • The service and proxy definitions that you want to configure are available as development objects in the back-end system.

  • You have Administrator authorization.

    For more information, see: Authorizations

Procedure

To configure a service provider:

  1. Call the Object Navigator (transaction code SE80).

  2. Choose Repository Browser.

  3. Locate a service provider and double-click to display its properties.

  4. To switch to Edit mode, choose   Service Definition   Display <-> Change  

  5. Choose   Goto   Start SOA Manager  .

    The SOA Manager is started in a new browser window, displaying the properties of the service definition.

    Alternatively, use the transaction code SOAMANAGER to start the SOA Manager, then search for a service definition.

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To set up the SOA Manager for local access, you do not need to perform any special steps.

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