Administer the Web services gateway

If you have applied a WAS fix pack or upgrade, your gateway configuration is empty. If you want to restore a saved configuration, do so before you add any new channels, filters, UDDI references or Web services.

To administer the Web services gateway, complete these steps:

1. Start the WAS Administrative Server.
2. Open the following Web page:

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

   where host and port are the host name and port number that your HTTP server is listening on. For example

   host:external-http-port or host:internal-http-port

   The default value for external-http-port is 80, and the default port for internal-http-port is 9080.

   The main administration page is displayed. The order of the elements on this page is significant, for these reasons:
   • If you change the namespace URI or WSDL URI (using the Configure Gateway option), you break the link back to the gateway for every Web service that you have already deployed. So set these URIs before you deploy any Web services.
   • When you configure a Web service, you choose these entities:
     • The Channels on which it is available.
     • The Filters (if any) which apply to it.
     • The UDDI References (if any) to which it is deployed.

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

3. For more information on how to configure each element of the Web services Gateway, see these topics:

   Set the namespace URI and WSDL URI for the Web services gateway
   This topic describes how to set the namespace URI for the Web services gateway.

   Work with channels
   This topic describes how to list, manage, deploy and remove channels.

   Work with filters
   This topic describes how to list, manage, deploy and remove filter.

   Work with UDDI references
   This topic describes how to list, manage, deploy and remove UDDI references.

   Work with Web services
   This topic describes how to list, manage, deploy and remove Web Services.

   Note:
   1. You configure each of the above elements of the gateway by filling in fields in a panel.
   2. In all of the gateway panels, fields marks with asterisks are required.
   3. After you deploy a channel, filter, or UDDI reference refresh all other open browser windows to ensure that up-to-date lists are displayed.