You need to share Web services if different people on your team are responsible for creating, testing, and deploying them. When you export Web services to a compressed file, other members of your team can import the Web services from the file into their own data development projects.
The compressed file includes the default generated XML schemas for the operations in the Web services, any custom XML schemas for the operations, and XSLT templates for with the custom XML schemas.
For each Web service, the compressed file also contains files in a subdirectory that is named .metadata. Do not edit these files.
To export Web services: