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Use

You publish service interfaces from the ES Repository so that you can discover it in the Services Registry and later consume them as Web services.

In the ES Builder, you can publish individual and multiple service interfaces, along with their classification values, to the Services Registry.

Prerequisites

  • Before you publish service interfaces, you must configure a connection between the ES Repository and the Services Registry.

    For more information, see: Technical Communication at Design Time

  • You can only publish active inbound service interfaces.

Procedure

Mass Publishing Service Interfaces

  1. Log on to the Enterprise Services Builder .

  2. Choose Start of the navigation path Tools Next navigation step Publish Service Interfaces End of the navigation path.

  3. Select the required service interfaces using the Select Multiple Service Interfaces icon and choose Apply .

    Note

    You can select a software component version, folder, or namespace to publish all the active inbound service interfaces under that node.

  4. To select service interfaces of different software component versions, namespaces or folders, repeat step 3.

  5. Choose Publish .

Publishing Individual Service Interfaces

  1. Log on to the Enterprise Services Builder .

  2. Open the inbound service interface that you want to publish and navigate to the WSDL tab page.

  3. Choose Publish .

Result

The ES Builder creates the following information for the service interface in the Services Registry:

Published Information

Use

Physical System

Uniquely identifies the ES Repository from which you published the service interface. You can use this information in the search function in the Services Registry.

UDDI Key

Uniquely identifies the model for the published service interface in the Services Registry.

WSDL-URL

URL to WSDL definition in ES Repository.

Documentation-URL

URL of the documentation of the service interface.

You use the URL to access the WSDL definition of the service interface. The definition has the following properties:

  • It only contains the description of the inbound service interface without any end point information (which is required to call this service at runtime).

  • It adheres to the WS interoperability (WS-I) standard.

For more information about finding service interfaces in the Services Registry, see Searching & Browsing Service Definitions .