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SAP Enterprise Services Explorer for Microsoft .NET (ES Explorer) is an add-in for Microsoft Visual Studio that helps to leverage SAP SOA by enabling .NET developers to discover SAP enterprise services and consume them in their applications, as well as publish their own custom Web services.

The following section discusses security aspects of ES Explorer.

Connection

ES Explorer requires a connection to the Services Registry (SR).

For more information, see Technical Communication at Design Time under Services Registry.

Authorization for the Services Registry

To access the SR, ES Explorer requires a user account with proper permissions.

For more information, see Authorizations.

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For the publication scenario, assigned this user account to the SERVICES_REGISTRY_READ_WRITE role.

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Authentication for the Services Registry

Depending on the required level of security, configure authentication level for services (strong, basic or none) in NetWeaver Administrator.

For more information, see Authentication for Web Services under Runtime Configuration in NetWeaver Administrator.

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Configuration settings of ES Explorer in Microsoft Visual Studio must match the above-mentioned authorization and authentication settings.

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Authorization for Services

Consumption of services discovered with ES Explorer requires authorizations for the services in the backend systems in which they are implemented. These authorizations are granted to user accounts assigned to services. The developers use these accounts for consuming the services.

For more information, see Creating User Accounts.