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Creating an Outbound Web Service Manually

WSDL does not provide native bindings for EAI MQSeries and EAI MSMQ transports. If your business requires you to pick up messages using these transports, then you can manually create an outbound Web service definition and update a corresponding business service in Siebel Tools to point to that Web service. The following procedure describes this process.

To manually create a new outbound Web service

1. Navigate to the Administration - Web Services screen, Outbound Web Services view.
2. In the Outbound Web Services list applet, create a new record:
   1. Enter the namespace of the Web service in the Namespace column.
   2. Enter the name of the Web service in the Name column.
   3. Select Active or Inactive in the Status field.
   4. Enter a description of the Web service in the Comment column.

      NOTE:  When importing an external Web service, you do not have to specify the proxy business service, integration objects, or the run-time parameters.

3. In the Service Ports list applet, create a new outbound service ports record:
   1. Enter the name of the Web service port in the Name column.
   2. Select a transport name for the protocol or queuing system for the Transport.
4. Enter the address for the transport chosen to publish the Web service:
   • The URL format to publish using HTTP is:

   http://webserver/eai_anon_lang/start.swe?SWEExtSource=SecureWebService&SWEExtCmd=Execute

   where:

   webserver is the name of computer where the Siebel Web Server is installed

   lang is the default language of the Object Manager that handles the request

   • The format to publish using the EAI JMS Transport is:

   jms://queue name@connection factory

   where:

   queue name is the Java Naming and Directory Interface (JNDI) name of the queue

   connection factory is the JNDI name of the JMS connection factory

   NOTE:  The JNDI name varies depending upon the JMS provider and your implementation.

   • The format to publish over the EAI MQSeries or EAI MSMQ transport is:

   mq://queue name@queue manager name

   msmq://queue name@queue machine name

   where:

   queue name is the name of the queue that is specified by either the EAI MQ Series or the EAI MSMQ transport at the time of its design

   queue manager name is the name of the EAI MQSeries Transport queue manager

   queue machine name is the name of the computer that owns the queue specified by the physical queue name for the EAI MSMQ Transport

   NOTE:  When publishing using EAI MQSeries or EAI MSMQ, you cannot generate WSDL files.

   • For the Local Workflow Process or Local Business Service transport, enter the name of the workflow or business service to be called.
   • For the Local Web Service transport, enter the name of the inbound port.
5. Select the binding that will publish the Web service.

   NOTE:  RPC_Encoded, RPC_Literal, DOC_Literal, and Property Set styles of binding are supported for publishing Web services.

   Use the Property Set binding when the input property set to the proxy service is forwarded without changes to the destination address. This is intended primarily for use in combination with the Local Workflow Process or Local Business Service transport to avoid the overhead of processing XML.

6. Enter a description of the port in the Comment column.
7. In the Operations list applet, create a new operation record for the new service port you created in Step 3:
   1. Select the name of the business service method in the Method Display Name column to complete the process.
   2. Select the authentication type from the drop-down list.

      NOTE:  For more information on using the Username/Password Authentication Type, see About Web Services Security Support.

8. Generate the WSDL file. For information, see Generating a WSDL File.

Updating the Outbound Proxy Business Service

When you have created your outbound Web service, update a corresponding outbound proxy business service in Siebel Tools to point to that Web service. This associates the outbound proxy business service and the outbound Web service. The following procedure outlines the steps you take to accomplish this task.

To update an outbound Web service proxy business service to point to an outbound Web service

1. In Siebel Tools, select the outbound Web service proxy business service you want to use to call your outbound Web service.
2. Add the following user properties for this business service and set their values based on the outbound service port of your Web service:
   • siebel_port_name
   • siebel_web_service_name
   • siebel_web_service_namespace