Administer the Web services gateway

 

Overview

If you have just completed the installation of an upgraded gateway, your gateway configuration is currently empty. If you want to restore a saved configuration, do so before you add any new channels, filters, UDDI references or Web services.

[V5.1.1 and later]You cannot make changes to a gateway that is part of a locked configuration load-balancing group. If you open the user interface for a locked gateway, you are only offered options to list information about the configuration.

You should not make changes to a gateway that is part of an unlocked configuration load-balancing group unless you are making changes, under controlled conditions, to all members of the group.

 

Overview

To administer the Web services gateway, complete the following steps:

  1. Start the WebSphere Application Server Administrative Server.

  2. Open the following Web page:

    http://host:port/wsgw/admin/index.html

    The main administration page is displayed:

    The gateway administration options are listed in the left-hand panel. The order in which these options are listed is significant, for the following reasons:

    1. If you change the namespace URI or WSDL URI (using the Gateway > Configure option), you break the link back to the gateway for every Web service that you have already deployed. You must therefore set these URIs before you deploy any Web services.

    2. When you deploy a Web service to the gateway, you choose the following entities:

      • The channels on which it is available.
      • Any filters that apply to it.
      • [V5.1 and later]Any JAX-RPC handlers that apply to it.
      • Any UDDI references to which it is deployed.

      Each of these choices is made from a list of resources that are already deployed to the gateway. Therefore you might want to deploy your channels, filters, handlers and UDDI references to the gateway before you deploy the Web services that use them.

    3. Use the gateway administration options to configure the gateway as described in the following topics:

      1. Setting the namespace URI and WSDL URI for the Web services gateway
      2. Working with channels
      3. Working with filters
      4. [V5.1 and later]Working with JAX-RPC handlers
      5. Working with UDDI references
      6. Working with Web services

      In all of the gateway administration panels, fields marked with asterisks are required. After you deploy a channel, filter, handler or UDDI reference, refresh all other open browser windows to ensure that current lists are displayed.

    Related tasks
    Enabling Web services through the Web services gateway