General Configuration page

The Create/Edit a Business Service - General Configuration page is one in a series of pages for creating and editing business services, as described in Creating and Configuring Business Services and Editing Business Service Configurations.

Use this page to modify general configuration settings for a business service.

When you create a business service, this is the first page displayed in a series of pages for configuring the service. The pages displayed after this one differ depending on the choices you make on this page.

Table 16-1 describes how to use the page.

Table 16-1 Create/Edit a Business Service - General Configuration Page 
Option
To create or edit...
Service Name
Enter a unique name for the business service.
Description
Enter a description.
Service Type
A service type defines the types and packaging of the messages exchanged by the service. Select the type of business service to create:
  • WSDL Web Service - Select this option to create a business service based on a WSDL. Then, enter the WSDL name, qualified by its path (for example, myProject/myFolder/myWSDL). Alternatively, click Browse to select a WSDL from the Select a WSDL page.
  • (port or binding) - Enter the name of a port (defined in the WSDL) to describe an actual transport address, or enter the name of a binding (defined in the WSDL) to map to a transport address. If you use Browse to select a WSDL, as described above, the Select a WSDL Definition page lists any ports and bindings defined in the WSDL. When you choose a port or a binding on that page, the (port or binding) field is filled with the selected name.

  • Transport Typed Service - Select this option to create a service that uses the EJB or Flow transport.
  • Messaging Service - Select this option to create a service that exchanges messages of very different content-type. These exchanges can be either request/response or one-way. It can also just have a response with no request when used with the HTTP `GET' option for the HTTP transport. Unlike Web Services, the content-type of the request and response need not be the same.
  • Any SOAP Service - Select this option to create a SOAP service that does not have an explicitly defined, concrete interface.
  • Keep the default SOAP 1.1, or select SOAP 1.2 from the drop-down list.

  • Any XML Service - Select this option to create an XML service that does not have an explicitly defined, concrete interface.
  • HTTP GET is only supported for messaging services and this service type.

  • Business Service - Select this option to clone an existing business service.
  • Enter the path (project/folder) and the name of the business service; or click Browse to select the business service from the Summary of Business Services page.

    Since ALSB does not accept the same URI for multiple services, you must change the URI for the cloned service.

  • Proxy Service - Select this option to create a business service based on an existing proxy service.
Service Type (continued)
Note: When a service is created from another service, alert rules are maintained in the following way:
    • When a proxy service is created from a business service or a business service is created from a proxy service, the alert rules, if any, are removed.
    • When a proxy service is created from another proxy service or a business service is created from another business service, the alert rules, if any, are retained.

After you finish

Click Next to continue configuring this service on the next page; or click Last to review and save this configuration on the Create/Edit a Business Service - Summary page.