Managing Web Service Methods

You can define one or several methods as part of a Web Service. In PowerDesigner, you use operations to create Web service methods.

• Creating a Web Service Method
  A Web service method is an operation with the Web Service Method property selected.
• Web Service Method Properties
  When the Web Service method check box is selected in the operation property sheet, a number of additional tabs are displayed.
• Implementing a Web Service Method in Java
  To implement a Web service method, you have to define the following:
• Implementing a Web Service Method in .NET
  To implement a Web service method in .NET, you have to define input parameters and return type.
• Defining Web Service Method Extended Attributes
  You can customize the WSDL generation using extended attributes. They allow you to modify input message name, output message name, SOAP operation style, port types to generate, SOAP action, Web method type, and so on.
• Defining SOAP Data Types of the WSDL Schema
  Each Web method has an input, output and fault data type to be defined. A data type has a name and a schema definition.