Exploring Web Service and its Child Entities

This topic describes the child entities of a Web service and how to view them.

Web service has a hierarchy of child elements which together provide the required functionality. There are couple of ways to access each child element and you can also perform certain activities on each one of these.

The following table provides all the necessary details.

Child Element

Accessing

Purpose

Allowed Actions

Web service interface (Child of Web service)

In Workspace Documents (Explorer), expand the Web service. You can see the Web service interface. Double-click to open it.
In Workspace Documents (My Recent Documents), double-click the Web service and click on the toolbar of the Web service Properties window. You can see the Web service interface in a pane on the right side. Double-click to open it.

A container for holding the Web service operations
Contains information regarding the implementation class of the Web service

Validate and Publish to the organization
Attach to the Service Group so that the Web service operations use that Service

Web service operation (Child of Web service interface)

In Workspace Documents (Explorer), expand the Web service interface. You can see the Web service operation. Double-click to open it.
In Workspace Documents (Explorer), double-click the Web service interface and click on the toolbar of the Web service Binding window. You can see the Web service operation in a pane on the right side. Double-click to open it.

Contains the method implementation

Validate and Publish to the organization
View WSDL
Test Web service operation

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Exploring Web Service and its Child Entities