Web service operation management

This section describes how to manage Web service operations (or methods). These procedures require that you:

Expand the Web service collection.
Expand the Web service.
Expand the operations folder.

Overloaded methods

If you deploy a Web service that contains overloaded methods, the WST development tool displays only the first method of the overloaded method. Allowing or disallowing access to the method, affects all overloaded methods.

For example, if the Web service contains an overloaded method that contains the methods echo(String, String) and echo (String), the GUI displays only echo (String, String) twice, but the allowed/disallowed operation affects both echo(String, String) and echo(String).

Invoking an operation

This procedure invokes an operation of the Web service to which it belongs.

Right-click the operation and then select Invoke.

Allowing an operation

Allowing a Web service operation makes it available to clients. If a Web service operation is already allowed, this option is dimmed.

Right-click the operation and then select Allow.

Disallowing an operation

Prevent access to a Web service operation by following this procedure. If a Web service operation is already disallowed, this option is dimmed.

Right-click the operation and then select Disallow.

Table 4-5 describes the Web service operation properties.

**Table 4-5: Web service operation properties**
Property type	Property	Description
General	Name	The name of the operation.
	Description	A description of the Web service operation.
	Style	The SOAP binding style: Document – indicates that the SOAP body contains an XML document, or RPC (remote procedure call) – indicates that the SOAP body contains an XML representation of a method/operation call.
	Return Type	Specifies the return type of the operation.
	Is return value in response message	True or false.
	SOAP Action	The URI for the SOAPAction HTTP header for the HTTP binding of SOAP. The SOAPAction HTTP request header field can be used to indicate the intent of the SOAP HTTP request. The URI identifies the intent.
	Message Operation Style	Document, RPC, or wrapped.