Dreamweaver

Add a web service proxy using the WSDL description

After you specify a proxy generator and configure the web service server models that you must support, you identify a web service that provides the desired functionality and generate a proxy for that service.

  1. Open the page that you want to add the web service to.
  2. In the Components panel (Window > Components), select Web Services from the pop‑up menu in the upper-left corner of the panel, click the Plus (+) button, and select Add Using WSDL.
  3. Specify the URL of the WSDL file to use in one of these ways:

    • If you know the URL of the WSDL file, enter it in the URL of the WSDL box. This URL is used to generate the proxy and scripting information for the web service.

    • If you don’t know the URL of the WSDL file, click the UDDI browse button (globe icon) to browse a directory of web services, select one of the listed web service registries, or copy and paste the URL of the web service into the WSDL edit box.

    Note: You can edit the list of web service registries to include additional web service directories or specific web service providers.
  4. Select a proxy generator that supports your web services server model from the Proxy Generator pop‑up menu.
  5. Ensure that the proxy generator is installed and configured on your system, and click OK.

The proxy generator creates a proxy for the web service and introspects it. Introspection is the process where the proxy generator queries the internal structure of the web service proxy, and makes its interfaces, methods, and properties available through Dreamweaver.

The web service is now available for use in the site, and appears in the Components panel. You can now add the web service to a page.

Change the UDDI-based web service site list

The Web Service Chooser provides a list of UDDI-based web service directories from which you can select web services. You can edit this list to add or delete web service directories.

  1. In the Components panel (Window > Components), select Web Services from the pop‑up menu in the upper-left corner of the panel, and then click the Plus (+) button to add a web service.

  2. In the Web Services Chooser, click the globe icon and select Edit UDDI Site List from the pop‑up menu.

  3. Complete the UDDI Sites dialog box, and click Done.

    • To add a new site, or modify an existing one, click the New or Edit button. Enter the name and URL of a UDDI website, and click OK.

    • To remove an existing site, select it from the list, and click the Remove button.