Administer WSIF

An overview of where and how the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) is installed as part of WAS, and information about configuring a WSIF client to invoke a web service through JMS, and modifying the contents of the wsif.properties file.

WSIF is a thin abstraction layer between application code and the relevant invocation infrastructure.

WSIF is provided in a JAR file named com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar. The JAR file contains the WSIF classes, and the Java, EJB, SOAP over HTTP and SOAP over JMS providers. Additional providers are packaged as separate JAR files. When you install WebSphere Application Server, the com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar file is put on the WebSphere or JVM class path.

Apache no longer supports WSIF.

WSIF requires no further configuration, apart from the following administrative tasks:

• Enable a WSIF client to invoke a web service through JMS.

  Use the console to configure the JMS resources (a queue destination and a queue connection factory) required to enable a service to be invoked through JMS by a WSIF client application.

• Modify the contents of the wsif.properties file.

  We might have to modify the contents of this file, for example to change the default SOAP provider

Subtopics

• Enable a WSIF client to invoke a web service through JMS
  The ways in which the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) interacts with the Java Message Service (JMS), and the steps to take to enable a service to be invoked through JMS by a WSIF client application.

• wsif.properties file - Initial contents
  The Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) properties are stored in the com.ibm.ws.runtime.jar file, in a properties file named wsif.properties. We might have to modify the contents of this file, for example to change the default SOAP provider, so for reference here is a copy of the "as shipped" contents of the wsif.properties file.

Related concepts

Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF)

Related tasks

Change the default WSIF SOAP provider

Troubleshooting WSIF

Enable a WSIF client to invoke a web service through JMS