Simple Search for Interfaces

Interfaces encapsulate Web service operations and declare the message types that they produce and consume. Interface records provide technical templates that come in handy when planning to connect to or implement a Web service.

To Search for an Interface...

  1. Click the Search tab in the upper left corner of the console.

  2. Under the Search column click the Interface link. This will load the Search interfaces Control.

  3. Specify any of five search properties. Fields accepting strings also accept wildcards.

    This search control can be customized. The properties presented below may not accurately match those in your console.

    Common properties

    • Name - The name under which the interface record was published.

    • Usage - A classification system showing publishers' usage intentions for this interface.

    • Status - A classification system showing the publisher's declared status for the endpoint.

    • WS-I Compliance - The interfaces should comply with Web Service Interoperability (WS-I) profiles.

    • Keywords - A classification system in which the KeyName (left field) represents a naming or value space and the KeyValue (right field) represents a value in that space.

    These are the default search fields. The console you work with may have been customized to limit them or to include additional ones.

  4. Click the Find button. This loads the Interfaces Default view.

To Change the Result View

Simply select the desired view in the Result view list box. The default view options include Default and Technical. Other views can be added by the administrator so this list may not completely reflect the list in your console.