When you design a service, you create the design objects in the ES Repository to specify the service signature.
The introduction to service development describes the underlying concepts of service development; you require these concepts to use the objects documented here.
Object Types in Enterprise Services Builder for Service Development
Tools/Object Types |
Use |
Service Interface Message Type Fault Message Type Data Type |
Service development following the outside-in approach. |
Enables customer-specific enhancements to data types without modifying the SAP standard. |
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Export Function (WSDL/XSD) |
You export the WSDL definition of an interface object so that you can work with the definition in third-party tools. |
You import existing XML definitions to the Enterprise Services Repository so that you can use the message definitions they contain when designing services. |
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Definition of objects so that you can easily access the parts of a message at configuration time in the Integration Directory. |
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Imported Objects |
Inside-out use of XML definitions of existing functions (RFCs or IDocs) so that you can call them by using the Integration Server. See: Importing IDocs and RFCs. |
Definition of UI texts that are to be assigned to the appropriate locations when you design services. |
For more information about the general functions of the ES Builder that are also useful for interfaces, see the Enterprise Services Builder section.