Deploying Web services through the workbench

You can use the workbench to deploy Web services to Web servers.

During deployment, the workbench generates deployable files that contain the Web service, and for some target Web servers the workbench can transfer these files to the Web server. For other Web servers, deployment through the workbench is not supported and manually deploy the generated files outside of the workbench.

You do not need to start the Web server. The workbench will start the server automatically when you deploy a Web service to it.

If you modify a Web service after you deploy it to a Web server, edit the service in your data development project and then deploy it again to the server.

To deploy a Web service to a Web server:

1. Right-click the Web service and select

   Build and Deploy. The

   Deploy Web Service wizard opens.

2. Under

   Web server, specify the Web server that you want to deploy the Web service to.

   1. In the

      Type field, select one of the supported types of Web server.

   2. Click

      Server and then select the Web server in the list. If the Web server that you want is not in the list, click

      New, and then configure the Web server in the

      New Server wizard. If the

      Server option is not available, the server that you have selected is not supported for deployment through the workbench.

3. Modify other options as needed. For information about the fields, press F1.

4. Click Finish.

After deploying a Web service, you can access it by using the following URLs:

• For access by SOAP/HTTP requests: http://server:port/context_root/services/service_name

• For access by REST-like POST (text/xml) or POST (url-encoded) requests: http://server:port/context_root/rest/service_name/operation_name

• For access by REST-like GET (url-encoded) requests: http://server:port/context_root/rest/service_name/operation_name?parm1=val1&parm2;=val2&...

To see the content of the WSDL file, use the URL http://server:port/context_root/wsdl.

 

Related concepts

Auto-deployment of Web services

Testing Web services

 

Related tasks

Undeploying Web services through the workbench

Generating deployable files to transfer manually to Web servers

Testing a Web service with the Data Web Services Test Client

Adding parameters to Web services

Selecting the default deployment options for all Web services in a project

Related information

Testing WSDL documents and Web services using the WSDL Explorer

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