Before you can develop client applications to access the Web services
APIs, you must publish and export a number of artifacts from the WebSphere® server
environment.
Why and when to perform this task
The artifacts to be exported are:
- Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) files describing the port types
and operations that make up the Web services APIs.
- XML Schema Definition (XSD) files containing definitions of data types
referenced by services and methods in the WSDL files.
- Additional WSDL and XSD files describing business objects. Business objects
describe concrete business processes or human tasks running on the WebSphere server.
These additional files are only required if your client application needs
to interact directly with the concrete business processes or human tasks through
the Web services APIs. They are not necessary if your client
application is only going to perform generic tasks, such as issuing queries.
After these artifacts are published, you need to copy them to your
client programming environment, where they are used to generate a proxy
client and helper classes.