Publishing BP Server applications as Web Services

The Administration module of Business Process Portal enables you to publish/un publish BP Server applications as Web Services. Business Process Server Web Services also allows you to find and integrate other Web services available on the Internet into BP Server applications. Refer to the Web Services Developer’s Guide for more information.

Note: You can publish only one application at a time.

To publish BP Server applications as Web Services:

1. Perform steps 1 and 2 outlined in Installing BP Server applications.

2. Select the BP Server application you must publish as a Web service from the list and click Publish.

The Publish Application page appears as shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6. Publish application page

3. Select the methods (service operations) you want to publish from the Select Methods table.

4. Select the UDDI servers from the Select where to Publish table.

Note: By default only one UDDI registry is displayed. For more information about adding more registries, refer to the Web Services Developer’s Guide.

5. Optionally, enter a service description.

6. Click Publish.

Business Process Server publishes the selected application as a Web Service.

In this section:

Unpublishing BP Server application Web Services