Web Service Advisor View
The Dimension Designer's Web Service Advisor view is designed to assist the user in developing and deploying Web services by monitoring the validation and deployable state of their VDB and identifying any errors or incomplete steps in the process of building a Web service.
The view contains two sections titled Current Status and Related Guides.
In order to create and deploy a web service WAR file, a valid VDB must be created containing:
The Current Status section of the Web Service Advisor displays a checklist of the different modeling steps necessary to define a functional Web service and deploy this WAR file in Dimension Designer.
An empty checkbox next to any item means that this step in the Web service modeling process has yet to be completed. A red X in the checkbox indicates that there are validation errors or other problems associated with the step. Tooltips are also available which summarize category status. Just hover over the check-box icon or category title.
The following checkboxes are displayed:
Two actions below the checkboxes become available once a valid Web service has been fully defined.
In addition to monitoring status, the Web Service Advisor also provides users a list of available actions for each category. Selecting the icon for a given category will present a dialog containing available actions related to the selected category.
The Related Guides section of the Web Service Advisor provides a list of step-by-step guides you can use for generating Web services starting from the data source layer, or from an XML Schema or XML View model, or from an existing WSDL definition. These guides are termed "cheat sheets" in the application to adhere to the Eclipse convention. (See Using Cheat Sheets .)
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