You can publish WSDL files to the file system. If you are a client developer or a system administrator, you can use WSDL files to enable clients to connect to a Web service.
The publish WSDL administrative console panel, however, supports both JAX-RPC and JAX-WS services in the Feature Pack for Web Services. The publish WSDL panel generates a zip file that contains WSDL files for all modules in an application that contain a JAX-WS or JAX-RPC Web service. Read about providing the HTTP endpoint URL information to learn how the URL information affects the content of the published WSDL.
sptcfgThe purpose of publishing the WSDL file is to provide clients with a description of the Web service, including the URL identifying the location of the service.
After installing a Web services application, and optionally modifying the endpoint information, you might need WSDL files containing the updated endpoint informations to make deployed Web services application to be available to clients.
Before you publish a WSDL file, you can configure Web services to specify endpoint information in the form of URL fragments to enable full URL specification of WSDL ports. Refer to the tasks describing configuring endpoint URL information.
The WSDL files for each Web services-enabled module are published to the file system location you specify. You can provide these WSDL files to clients that want to invoke your Web services.
You can specify endpoint information for HTTP ports, Java Message Service (JMS) ports or directly access Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) that are acting as Web services.
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