SOAP WebServices - BW 6.x

Here, We will see how to create a simple SOAP webservice with one operation and then we will test it from SOAP UI and BW-SOAP client.

Open Business Studio and create a project by choosing File–>New–>Project option from the main menu bar. 

Specify Project Name and click on Next

Select the folders as per your requirement. If you want more folders you can create it. Infact, not needed.

Click on Next, you can rename the folder names if you need else click on Finish

Project and folder structure will be created automatically..

Click on arrow as shown below for creating SOAP service (Provider)

Specify Interface Name and Operation Name and then click on Next

Next, Create/Specify Schema  as per your requirement. But, here no changes are needed

Now we have the process with an operation but there is still no implementation of the operation, so drag and drop it on Process. Select "Implement Operation".

Receive and Reply activities with the names OperationIn and OperationOut will get added in the process.

Select Reply activity, and specify output or response messages.

In real-time, you may include DB, Salesforce..etc data as response. But, I am explaining by making simple logic to understand clearly for beginners.

On Reply activity-Properties, specify response.

Binding: Here, we need to specify SOAP configuration details and transport configurations using the connection resource

Select the SOAP Service Binding, then change the Transport Type as shown below

Then, specify HTTP Connector as shown below..

Ensure to save the process, whenever you made changes.

Click on Generate Concreate WSDL

Enter location and File Name and click on Next

Leave the setting as is and click on Finish.

Note down Host and Port.

You can check whether WSDL created properly or not 

Testing

You can test the WSDL process either by SOAP UI or BW client process

Either you can Debug or Run. Here, I've debugged the process by deploying them on BW Runtime.

Check the console for output .

That's all about creating WSDL service and testing through SOAP UI

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Now, we will create a Consumer process to invoke Provider process (WSDL) just created above.

Create another process for invoking Provider WSDL logic

Enter name of the process and click on Finish

Drag and drop the WSDL Operation to the Process.

Keep Timer activity to start the process.

On Invoke activity, specify Input Parameters

Debug/ Run - Provider (WSDL ) and Consumer processes

Check the inputs/ outputs of Provider and Consumer processes.

That's all.

Thanks for reading :-)