Web Service Information

Service

Displays the name of the Web service as defined in the WSDL file.

Operation

Displays which service, or operation, within the Web service this operation uses. The name of this operation is as defined in the WSDL file.

Style

Displays one of the following values:

• rpc

• document

• wrapped

See the W3C Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 specification.

Use

Displays one of the following values:

• literal

• encoded

See the W3C Web Services Description Language (WSDL) 1.1 specification.

Beans Package

Displays the name of Java beans package that Dialog Designer uses to implement the Web service.

Name Space

Displays the URL to the location where the Web service resides.

Endpoint

Displays the endpoint used to invoke the Web service. The required endpoint for the Web service is available within the WSDL file for the Web service.

Note: When deploying the application, this endpoint can be changed to another endpoint, in Configure Web Application Descriptor. This change might be useful, for example, if you have been using a pared-down version of the Web service while developing and testing your application. In this case, you might want to use a different, official version of the Web service with the deployed application.

Username Token authentication

When generating the security token to include in the SOAP message for the Web service request, the password can either be sent as a hash (#), or in the clear.

When interfacing to .Net Web services over a secure link, it can be beneficial to not hash the password, since WSS4J and .Net use different hash schemes.

Timeout

Sets the HTTP socket timeout, in seconds, to be used when executing the Web service operation.

WSDL URL

The URL of the WSDL file for the Web service in standard HTTP or HTTPS format.

All Web services has an associated WSDL file that describes what services the Web service provides. Dialog Designer uses this WSDL information to populate the Operation field list.

Note: Dialog Designer supports only WSDL files that contain unique method signatures.

Note: Dialog Designer does not support operation overloading, or the use of methods with the same name but different parameters.

Tip: If a Web service has been previously created, Dialog Designer remembers the URL. For future Web service creations, Dialog Designer automatically populates this field with the URL. Dialog Designer keeps track of the last 20 Web services URLs used in operations.

Input Parameters

Input Parameters

The parameters configured when the Web service was created is displayed, but this can be changed, if desired.

Using these fields, variables can be remapped after a Web service operation file is initially created. This is useful for when custom variables are created after creating a Web service operation file.

See Mapping Input & Output Parameters (Wizard Page 2 & 3) for more information.

Output Parameters

Output Parameters

The parameters configured when the Web service was created is displayed, but this can be changed, if desired.

Using these fields, variables can be remapped after a Web service operation file is initially created. This is useful for when custom variables are created after creating a Web service operation file.

See Mapping Input & Output Parameters (Wizard Page 2 & 3) for more information.

Authentication

Authentication

Indicates how Dialog Designer should authenticate with the Web service host. The authentication configured when the Web service was created is displayed, but this can be changed, if desired. Options are:

• Basic - Transmits the username/password pair in an unencrypted form from browser to server in the HTTP header.

• Digest - Transmits the username/password pair encrypted from the browser to server in the HTTP header.

HTTP Headers

Name

. .Identifies the name of the header as expected or returned by the web server.

Variable/Field

Lets you select the variable (and field if its a complex variable) that contains the data that will be sent in the HTTP request, or the variable that will receive the header value that is returned.

Direction

Lets you specify if the header is sent (Out), received (In) or sent and received (InOut).