Modify the additional properties for an endpoint listener that
has been configured for use with inbound services.
Before you begin
You cannot use this task to modify the general properties of an existing
endpoint listener. The reason for this is that, when you create a new endpoint
listener, an associated endpoint listener application is automatically installed
that uses the same general property values. Therefore if you subsequently
change the general properties, you break the link between the configuration
and the underlying application. If you have to change the general properties,
you must delete and recreate the endpoint listener configuration.
About this task
To list the endpoint listeners, and to view and modify their configuration
details, complete the following steps.
Procedure
- Start the administrative console.
- In the navigation pane, click one of the following paths:
A list of endpoint listeners is displayed
in an endpoint
listener collection form.
- Click the name of an endpoint listener in the list. The
current endpoint
listener settings for this endpoint listener are displayed.
- View the following general properties. If you are configuring an
endpoint listener that is supplied with WebSphere® Application Server, the
required values are given in Endpoint
listener configuration details.
- Name
- View the name by which the endpoint listener is known. If this is your
own endpoint listener, rather than one that is supplied with WebSphere Application Server, then this name must match the name given in the endpoint listener
application that you have installed (that is, the display name of the
endpoint module within the endpoint application EAR file).
- DescriptionDescription
- View the (optional) description of the endpoint listener.
- URL root
- View the address at which external clients access the endpoint listener endpoint. The URL root is the context root of the endpoint listener application, and provides the root of the web address that is used to build the endpoint addresses within WSDL files to direct requesters to this endpoint listener.
- If external clients access the endpoint listener through an HTTP server or server cluster, by using default port 80, then specify the HTTP server name and no port number. For example (for SOAP over HTTP endpoint listener 1):
http://www.yourcompany.com/wsgwsoaphttp1
However, if you allow external clients to connect direct to your application server (for example because it is a stand-alone server or in a development or test environment) then specify the application server host name and port number. For example (for SOAP over HTTP endpoint listener 1):http://your.server.name:9080/wsgwsoaphttp1
- WSDL serving HTTP URL root
- View the root of the web address for the WSDL files of the inbound services
that are available at this endpoint listener. This address comprises the root of the HTTP address at which external clients access your endpoint listener application, followed by /sibws.
If external clients access the endpoint listener
through an HTTP server or server cluster, typically by using default
port 80, then this URL root includes the HTTP server name and no port
number. For example:
http://www.yourcompany.com/sibws
However,
if you allow external clients to connect direct to your application
server (for example in a development or test environment) then this
URL root includes the application server host name and port number.
For example:
http://your.server.name:9080/sibws
Note: The WSDL serving HTTP URL root is only used internally by other components of WebSphere Application Server (notably the IBM UDDI registry). For all other uses, you access the WSDL file through the endpoint listener endpoint for the inbound service. To get the location details for a given inbound service WSDL file, publish the WSDL file to a .zip file as described in Modifying an existing inbound service configuration, then look up the location within the exported WSDL file.
- Under the additional properties heading, click Connection
properties. A list of all the service integration buses
that are currently connected to this endpoint listener is displayed in a service
integration bus connection properties collection form. Add, amend or
delete buses in the list of currently-connected buses. To add a new bus, complete
the following steps:
- Click New. The service
integration bus connection properties settings form is displayed.
- Under the general properties heading, select an available service
integration bus from the drop-down list. The bus is selected
and the additional properties for the bus are displayed.
Note: Under the connection
properties for the bus there are Custom properties. These custom properties are name and value pairs that you can use to set internal system configuration properties. In each pair, the name is a property key and the value is a string value. You use custom properties
to define the manner in which the endpoint listener connects to this bus.
Included in this set is property name com.ibm.ws.sib.webservices.replyDestination,
which defines the reply destination name used by the endpoint listener. Do
not modify or remove this property, which is set automatically when the service
integration bus is associated with the endpoint listener.
- Under the additional properties heading, click Associated
application. Details for the application that
handles the requests for this endpoint listener are displayed in an enterprise
application settings form.
- Save your changes to the master configuration.
Results
If the processing completes successfully, the list of service integration
buses that are connected to this endpoint listener is updated, and the list
of endpoint listeners is redisplayed. Otherwise, an error message is displayed.