360° View on enterprise SOA: Provide and consume y...

former_member200106 · ‎07-08-2008

In the 360° View on enterprise SOA: Provide and consume your own enterprise services – Implement the provid... we implemented the business functionality that the service will expose and deployed it to the runtime.

How to make the services available in the Services Registry and test them there will be covered in the attached screencam and explained below.

In my next post you learn how to use Visual Composer as part of SAP NetWeaver CE to retrieve the services from the Services Registry and consume them in this rapid application development environment.

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This blog series describes how to reengineer "existing offerings into a set of well-governed, harmonized and technology-agnostic enterprise services", to ultimately consume these. This installment will cover post deployment steps required to publish the services into the Services Registry and test them from there.

What are we going to do?

At first we use the Web Service Administration being part of the SOA Management/Business Administration in NetWeaver Administrator (NWA) to configure an endpoint for the newly deployed services. Enterprise Services always require authentication for security reasons and the tooling is supporting you with the configuration. Having to configure the endpoint explicit is a security precaution that avoids unintended exposure of newly deployed Enterprise Services.

As a second step we create a Publication Restriction also using the NWA that indicates that the contained Enterprise Services are to be published in the Services Registry.

After the services are published which might take some minutes depending on the background job that does the work we can locate the new services in the Services Registry. From there we can just use the Test button on the Endpoint tab to start the web services navigator (WS Navigator) which allows us to test interactively.

With all that done we're now ready to put a nice UI on top of the services which we will cover in the next installment.

Screencam Storyboard: Configuration, publication and testing of Enterprise Services on SAP NetWeaver CE

1. Configure Service

Endpoint Configuration
Create Publication Restriction

2. Locate Services in the Services Registry

3. Testing the Services using the web services navigator

In a nutshell: From having your services deployed -> testing them with WS Navigator

After you implemented, classified and deployed your Enterprise Services using NetWeaver Developer Studio in the previous block you can now configure it properly to expose an authenticated endpoint. Additionally you've learned how to publish the services to the Services Registry and start the web services navigator from it to test your services.

In the next part of the '360° view on enterprise SOA series' I will show you how to use Visual Composer to consume your newly created Enterprise Services.

In the following the links to the other blogs from the series: