Specifying a Web Service Connector

When you want to use a web service in your Composite Application Framework web or portlet application, you must create a web service connector and specify a web service client. You can add a web service connector in the following ways:

Use the New > Web Services Connector wizard, as described below. You can use this method to select a WSDL file from your local file system, or to create a web service connector from an Integration Server service or web service descriptor.

Use the drag and drop method. For more information, see Adding a Web Service Connector from Package Navigator.

Add a Java class reference to a managed bean. For more information, see Generating a Web Service Connector Reference.

Important:

The user account used to connect to the Integration Server must have appropriate ACL permissions to access and work with the targeted services used in the following procedure.

To specify a web service client with the New Web Service Client wizard

1. In the UI Development perspective, click the Navigator view and locate the web or portlet application project you want to work with.

2. Right-click the project and select New > Web Service Connector.

3. In the New Web Service Client wizard, select a project from the Project list and click Next.

Click the WSDL list and select Browse to a Local File to select a WSDL file that represents a web service.

Click the WSDL list and select Choose a Web Service from a Data Provider to choose a service or web service descriptor from a data provider:

i. In the Select Web Service dialog box, expand the webMethods Integration Server instance you want to work with until you find the package and service or web service descriptor you want to use, select it, and then click OK. For information about creating a web service descriptor, see Creating a Web Service Descriptor.

The Client Name and Package fields display the selected object’s information.

5. In the Authentication Method list, select the desired authentication mode.

Note:

If you select the Hybrid authentication mode, SAML 2.0 is used by default. To use SAML Artifact Profile, set the wsclient.hybrid.use.samlartifact property to true in the custom_wrapper.conf file in the following My webMethods Server directory: Software AG_directory/profiles/MWS_instanceName/configuration.

If the selected service or descriptor has two or more operations, click Next to specify the operation you want to use.

Click Next to work with additional web service connector settings, or click Finish to add the web service connector.

The new web service client is added to the application and can be viewed in the User Interfaces node of the Solutions view and in the Managed Beans node of the Bindings view. You can also view the wsclient.xml file in the project’s WEB-INF folder in the Navigator view.