Enable Web services through the IBM Web services gateway

Use this topic to enable Web services through the IBM Web services Gateway.

You use the IBM Web services gateway to handle Web Service invocations between Internet and Intranet environments. You use it to make your internal Web services available externally, and to make external Web services available to your internal systems.

With the Web services gateway you can administer Web services, Channels, Filters and UDDI registrations.

Detailed instructions on how to enable Web services through the IBM Web services gateway are given in these tasks:

Web services gateway - Complete the installation
This topic describes how to install the Web services gateway in a single application server or Network Deployment environment.

Administer the Web services gateway
This topic describes how to administer the Web services gateway, include how to work with channels, with filters, with UDDI references, and with Web services.

Administer security for the Web services gateway
This topic describes how to enable gateway-level authentication and enable operation-level authorization.

Pass SOAP messages with attachments through the Web servics gateway
This topic describes how to pass attachments in a MIME message, as supported by the SOAP/HTTP channel.

Back up and restore a gateway configuration (Version 5.0.2 or later)
This topic describes how to back up and restore a gateway configuration.

For a brief overview of what the Web services gateway is for, and how it works, see Web services gateway Overview.