Adding a registry, business entity, business service, service interface, WSIL, or WSDL service to Favorites

You can add a registry, business entity, business service, service interface, WSIL, or WSDL service to the Web Service Explorer Favorites if you plan to access them in the future.

Prerequisite:

To add a registry, business entity, Web service, service interface, WSIL, or WSDL to Favorites using the Web Services Explorer:

  1. Navigate through the registry hierarchy to find the registry, business entity, Web service, service interface or the WSIL page to find the WSIL or WSDL service you want to add to Favorites.

  2. Select the business entity, Web service, service interface, WSIL, or WSDL service.

  3. In the Actions icon bar, click the

    Add to favorites icon .

Any favorites that you add are saved by the Web Services Explorer to 

X:\workspace\.metadata\.plugins\com.ibm.etools.webservice.explorer\favorites.wsil

Where X is the directory where your workspace folder is located. If you are migrating from an earlier version of the product, your favorites will be automatically migrated to this location.

Parent topic: Publishing Web services and business entities

Related Concepts

Tools for Web services development

Web services development

Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)

Related Tasks

Publishing Web services and business entities

Launching the Web Services Explorer

Registering with a UDDI registry

Related Reference

Data structure types (UDDI registry)