This section provides information about configuring a connection and publishing Web services and Service Groups to the Services Registry (SR). You specify the Web services or Service Groups you want to publish by grouping them in a publication rule. You do not explicitly publish Web services or Service Groups to the SR. The actual publication is performed by a background job which runs after each update of the publication rule.

More information: Modifying SOA Configuration Background Process Settings

Publication Rules

A publication rule is a placeholder containing the Web services or Service Groups that you want to publish. When you create a publication rule, you can add or remove Web services or Service Groups to or from it. Publication rules have two statuses: active and inactive. The system publishes only the Web services and Service Groups belonging to a publication rule which is in status active. By default, when you create a publication rule, it is in status active, and you can optionally deactivate it.

When a Web service is published, all service endpoints configured for this Web service are published to the SR. The system synchronizes the published Web services' current state on the provider system with the information published for these Web services on the SR. The configuration changes which you make to the published Web services are reflected in the information published in the SR the next time the background job runs.

The table below lists the possible changes you can make to a publication rule or a published Web service and explains the system's response.