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You use consumer applications to consume Web services that are running on a provider system. However, some consumer applications may also expose Web services which are consumed by other applications.

When you administer consumer applications, you can configure at one go the Web services that these applications expose. You configure the Web services by assigning communication profiles to them. The framework applies the policies in the profiles to the Web services and creates configuration entities called service endpoints.

Note Note

You cannot use the procedure described here for XI 3.0-compatible Web services.

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Prerequisites

You have created communication profiles.

More information: Preparing Communication Profiles

Procedure

  1. Log on to the SAP NetWeaver Administrator.

  2. Choose   SOA Management   Application and Scenario Communication   Application Communication  

    Alternatively, you can use the quick link /appcommunication as follows:

    http://<host>:<port>/nwa/appcommunication

    The Application Communication screen opens.

  3. Choose an application from the table.

    The table shows all applications deployed on your client system that either provide or consume Web services.

  4. Choose Edit.

  5. On the Provided Services tab, proceed as follows:

    To select multiple entries from the lists, on your keyboard, press and hold the SHIFT or CTRL keys and then choose the relevant service definitions.

    • Assign a profile

      1. Choose a service definition from the table, and then choose Assign Profile.

        The Assign Profile window opens.

      2. To search for profiles, in the Value field, enter a profile name and then choose Go.

        You can use an asterisk (*) or a question mark (?) as wildcards in the search string.

      3. Choose a profile from the table and then choose OK.

    • Unassign a provider system

      1. Choose a service definition from the table, and then choose Unassign Profile.

      2. To confirm, choose Yes.

  6. Choose Save.

Result

After you save the application, the system performs a background process, and applies the communication profile policies to the service definition. The framework creates configuration entities called service endpoints. When the service endpoints are available, you can configure the consumer proxies which consume the configured service definitions. You can check the created service endpoints in the Single Service Administration application.

The Processing State column of the service definitions table shows the state of the configuration. You can display more information about the processing state in the Log Viewer application.

More information: Log Viewer