About Web Service Configuration
Use the Web Service Configuration portlet to set up the portal for consuming Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP). You prepare the Consumer portal for integrating remote portlets provided by Producer portals so the portal users can work with these portlets. Additionally, we can configure Web Service Producers on the Consumer portal side and configure various aspects of using web services in the portal.
We cannot use the Web Services Configuration portlet to perform the following tasks:
- Provide web services:
- To provide the portlets on a Producer portal and make them available to other portals through WSRP, use the Manage Portlets portlet.
- Consume web services:
- To integrate portlets provided by a Producer as remote portlets on the Consumer portal, use the Manage Web Modules portlet.
Web Services Configuration displays a table that lists the Producers in the portal. Producers are other portals that provide remote portlets through WSRP. The table shows the Producers whose portlets we can consume in the portal. The table is empty after the portal installation until we create a Producer definition. The columns of the table show the following information and icons:
- The title of the Producer
- The description of the Producer, if available
- The status, that is, whether the Producer is in use in the portal
- The WSRP version the Consumer portal and the Producer portal use when we consume web services from the listed Producer.
- These icons that use for working with Producers:
- Edit for editing an existing Producer.
- Delete for deleting a Producer.
- Assign Access for giving users permissions on Producers.