Searching 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...

Click the Catalog tab in the upper left corner of the console.
Click the Interfaces node. This will load the Interfaces page.
Click the Search interfaces link. This will load the Search interfaces control.
Specify any of six search properties grouped. Fields accepting strings also accept wildcards.
This search control can be customized. The properties presented below may not accurately match those in your console.
Search properties
- Local Name - The name under which the interface record was published.
- Usage - A classification system identified by the
```
uddi:systinet.com: taxonomy:usage
```
  tModel showing publishers' use intentions.
- Status - A classification system identified by the
```
uddi:systinet.com: taxonomy:interface:status
```
  tModel showing the publisher's declared status for the endpoint.
- Compliance - The interfaces should comply with Web Service Interoperability (WS-I) specifications.
- Keywords - A classification system identified by the
```
uddi-org:general_keywords
```
  tModel, in which the KeyName (left field) represents a naming or value space and the KeyValue (right field) represents a value in that space.
Click the Find button. This loads the Interfaces Default view.

To Change the Result View

Simply select the desired view in the 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.