Enterprise Services Perspective
Definition
The Enterprise Services perspective offers a single starting point for creating and consuming Web services.
Use
Using the context menu, you can trigger the relevant development activities (create, edit, and so on) and start the appropriate editors of the Web services toolset.
Structure
To open the enterprise services perspective, choose Window → Open Perspective → Other →Enterprise Services.
The Enterprise Services perspective contains the following views:
● Service Explorer
This view lists the available EJB and Java projects. Each project contains the following nodes:
○ Services – using the context menu of this node, you create the required components for creating and configuring a Web service: service collections, service interfaces, and Web services.
○ Endpoints – Enterprise JavaBeans and Java classes that are provided as endpoints for creating Web services.
○ Package folders
● Client Explorer
In this view, you can create deployable and standalone proxies for your Web services. The Client Explorer view contains a node called Consumers that lists the required components for creating and configuring a Web service proxy: consumer collection, consumer, and configuration.
● Enterprise Service Browser
This view enables you to connect to the Enterprise Service Repository and perform actions such as data types browsing, client and service development.
See also:
Creating Web Services from Enterprise JavaBeans
Working with the
Enterprise Service Repository Browser