WebSphere WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment, Version 6.0.x Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Target services and gateway services

The Web services gateway makes the following distinction between a target service and a gateway service:

A target service is either an internal service (that is, an internally-hosted service directly available at a bus destination), or an external Web service (that is, an externally-provided Web services that has been made available at a bus destination as an outbound service).

When you configure a gateway service, the gateway service is described in a new WSDL file that is published to a gateway-controlled URL. This indirection gives the following benefits:

When you create a new gateway service, you associate it with a single target service. The gateway service WSDL is created from this first target service WSDL, and you specify the location of the target service WSDL as part of the gateway service creation process. If the target service is an external Web service, it already has an associated WSDL that you can point to. If it is an internal service, create and make available a template WSDL that describes the service.

Related tasks
Creating a new gateway service configuration
Modifying an existing gateway service configuration
Related reference
Adding a target service to a gateway service configuration using the wsadmin tool
Removing a target service from a gateway service configuration using the wsadmin tool
Related information
Gateway services settings
Target services settings

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Last updated: 15 Mar 2007
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