Web Service Navigator

Web Service Navigator  

Use

The Web Service Navigator is used to display Web services deployed to a server (either in the SAP NetWeaver Developer Studio or in standalone mode in a Web browser).

Features

The Web Service Navigator allows you to:

·        Call the Web Service Homepage

·        Generate a deployable or standalone proxy

Procedure

Proceed as follows in order to display deployed Web services in the Web Service Navigator:

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       1.      Start the Web Service Navigator in the Web Service Perspective or choose Window  ® Show View  ® Other ® Web Services ® Web Service Navigator.

       2.      In the Web Service Navigator, choose Local Server if you have deployed your Web Service on a local J2EE Engine.  From the context menu, choose Refresh. Expand the Local Server node.

Position the cursor on the Servers node in order to display the Web services of another server. In the context menu, choose Add new server. The following dialog box appears:

In the WSIL location field, enter the URL for the Web Service Inspection Language (WSIL). Using the Web Service Inspection Language, you can display a list of Web services that exist on a server.  (A specification of WSIL is available at www.ibm.com).

Examples:

J2EE Engine	http://p71400:50000/inspection.wsil
ABAP server	http://us7211.wdf.sap.corp:50004/sap/bc/srt/wsil By specifying the path /sap/bc/srt/wsil the WSIL description of the SOAP runtime registry is found on the ABAP server (transaction SICF). The port number can also be found in transaction SICF, underGoto ® Port Information (column Service).
Internet address	http://www.xmethods.com/inspection.wsil

Generating a Proxy

Proceed as follows if you want to generate a proxy object for a Web service from the Web Service Navigator:

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       1.      Create a proxy object. Choose File® New ® Project ® Web Services ® Deployable Proxy Project or Standalone Proxy Project.

       2.      In the Web Service Navigator, position the cursor on the required Web service. In the context menu, choose Generate Deployable Proxy or Generate Standalone Proxy.

       3.       In the following dialog box, choose the source folder of the proxy project.

Enter the name of the package and the name of the proxy. For more information, refer to the section Consuming a Web Service.

Standalone Mode

To launch the Web Service Navigator in standalone mode, enter the following in the Web browser:

http://server:httpPort/wsnavigator

The first page lists all the Web services deployed on the specified server. You can enter the URL of the WSDL in an input field. To do this, choose the appropriate style (such as RPC Encoded). Only URLs beginning with http orhttps are accepted, for security reasons. Choose Next. The Web Service Homepage is displayed for this Web Service.

The Web Service Homepage is generated for both external and internal Web services. WSDL documents can only be displayed for internal Web services.