ABAP Web Services

Use

Feature	Type of Change	Description
SOA Manager: New Roles and Authorization	Change	New roles and authorization objects are available for SOA Manager. More information: Roles and Authorizations SAP Note 1318883 (Introduction of new authorizations in Web Service Framework). You can also download the new roles from this SAP Note.
SOA Manager: Event Enabling	New	Operations for specially created event proxies can be service enabled to allow applications in a landscape to communicate with each other using business events. More information: Configuring a Consumer Proxy
SOA Manager: Fallback Configuration for Service Groups	New	If a failure occurs in a service group, the service connections will not be correctly configured and may fail. When a failure is identified, the configuration profile can be switched to a fallback configuration that you define. More information: Creating a Fallback Configuration
SOA Manager: Logical and Technical Receiver Determination	New	Logical receiver determination provides information about provider systems that enables a consumer application to decide which provider system to send a call to. You can configure routing rules to direct calls to a particular receiver. More information: Creating Routing Rules for Service Groups Technical receiver determination (TRD-API), which allows developers of web service consumer applications to dynamically instantiate consumer proxies at runtime. More information: Technical Receiver Determination API Logical receiver determination and technical receiver determination can be used in parallel to provide more information about which system is used.
SOA Manager: Migration Tools	New	To use new functionality in SOA Manager, you can migrate Web service configurations from earlier SAP NetWeaver releases to the latest SAP NetWeaver release. More information: Migrating Web Service Configurations
Service Variants	New	Service variants provide views on service interfaces. Instead of using all the parameters in a service interface, a service variant allows you to use only parameters that are needed for a particular business context. More information: Working with Service Variants

Feature

Type of Change

Description

Web Service Logging and Tracing

New

The Web Service Support Utilities allow you to observe the processes in the Web service runtime. The new SRT_UTIL transaction provides the following utilities:

Web service logging.

You can use the error log to receive information about the most important processing steps in the ABAP Web service runtime.
Web service tracing, such as performance tracing, functional tracing, and payload tracing.

You can use the tracing functionality to perform a detailed analysis of errors in Web services that were discovered with logging and monitoring. You can activate the tracing and set the desired tracing level for a user, terminal, or request URI.

For more information, see Web Service Logging and Tracing .