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Publishing Business Process Choreographer WSDL files

A Web Service Definition Language (WSDL) file contains a detailed description of all the operations available with a web services API. Separate WSDL files are available for the Business Flow Manager and Human Task Manager web services APIs. These files are used to generate a web service proxy for your application.

Before publishing the WSDL files, be sure to specify the correct web services endpoint address. This is the URL that your client application uses to access the web services APIs.

You must publish these WSDL files, and any XSD files referenced by the WSDL files. You can then copy them from the WebSphere environment to your development environment, where they are used to generate a web service proxy and helper classes. You only need to publish the Business Process Choreographer WSDL files once.

• Publishing the BPEL process WSDL file for web services applications
  Use the administrative console to publish the WSDL file.
• Publishing the human task WSDL file for web services applications
  Use the administrative console to publish the WSDL file.

Publishing and exporting artifacts from the server environment for web services client applications