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Service Composer is a capability of SAP NetWeaver that allows you to easily develop composite applications. This section provides information about the new and enhanced features of Service Composer.

New and Enhanced Features in SAP NetWeaver 7.2

Feature

Type of Change

Description

Simplifying Services

New

You can now simplify existing WSDL files. For more information, see Simplifying Services.

Integration with Composite Designer perspective

New

You can use the Composite Designer perspective to create new simplified or composed services. For more information, seeComposing Services with Service Composer and Creating New Development Objects.

You can import RFC back-end services

New

For more information, see Composing Services.

You can create custom functions over mappings between a composed service and back-end service(s).

New

For more information, see Mapping Service Operations Input and Output and Performing Complex Data Transformation with Functions.

Service interface re-import

New

If you have an already imported service definition, if it is modified afterwards you may want these changes to take effect in the model of your application. For that purpose you can use the automatic re-import feature. For more information, see Reimporting a Modified Service Definition.