Consumed Web Service
Introduction
This document describes the properties of an imported web service. For a general overview of imported web services, see the Consumed Web Services overview documentation.
WSDL Source
You can load the WSDL from a URL or from a WSDL file saved on your disk.
If you try to load a WSDL file from a URL that requires authentication, you will be asked for a user name and password.
A WSDL file may contain multiple services and a service may contain multiple ports. Upon loading a WSDL, a dialog box will ask you to select a port for each service that contains multiple ports.
Services
This part specifies the services to be found in the WSDL.
- Name – the name of the service
- Port – the selected port
- Location – where the service is located
- Location constant – can be used to add additional locations for a service in the case of, for example, when the URL of the SOAP service changes when moving from a development to a production environment; see also Constants
If there is a multiple-port service defined in the WSDL, a pop-up dialog box will enable you to select which of the ports to use.
Operations
This part shows all the operations found in the WSDL. You can expand the list and see additional information about individual operations in the right pane.
Advanced Settings
Check Send binary data as attachment (MTOM) to enable MTOM (Message Transmission Optimization Mechanism), a method of efficiently sending binary data to and from Web services. Read more about it at w3.org.
Calling Consumed Web Services
For details on how to call a consumed web service, see Call Web Service.