Install, configure, and design checklist

This section summarizes the tasks you must perform to install, configure, and design your web services solution. Each section briefly describes the tasks and then provides links to sections in this document (and cross references to related documents) that describe how to perform the task or provide background information.

Installing the adapter

See Installation and startup for a description of what and where you must install.

Configuring connector properties

Connectors have two types of configuration properties: standard configuration properties and connector-specific configuration properties. Some of these properties have default values that you do not need to change. You may need to set the values of some of these properties before running the connector. For more information, see Web services connector.

Configuring protocol handlers and listeners

You configure protocol handlers and listeners when you assign values to connector configuration properties that govern the behavior of these components. For more information, see Web services connector.

Enabling collaborations for web services

When you enable collaborations for web services, you create collaborations that can invoke, or be exposed as, web services. You also create or adapt business objects. For an overview of the tasks involved, see Web services configuration tools.

Exposing collaborations as web services

For a step-by-step description see Exposing collaborations as web services.

Enabling collaborations to invoke web services

For a step-by-step description, see Enabling collaborations for request processing.

Configuring the SOAP data handler

You configure information in data handler meta-objects after you install the product files, but before startup. Unless you are adding a custom name handler, you can use the default SOAP data handler configuration to save time. You must, however, configure specific meta-object information for each data handler transformation. This information is contained in SOAP Config MOs. You specify SOAP Config MOs when you create business objects. Much of this work is automated when you are developing collaborations that invoke web services (request processing): when you use the WSDL ODA to generate business objects for SOAP messages, the SOAP Config MOs are automatically generated for you.

For further information on configuring the data handler, see SOAP data handler.

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