Creating a Web Service Connection Profile

A connection profile contains the connection property information needed to connect to a Web service in your enterprise.

1. In Enterprise Explorer, right-click Web Services and select New.
2. Complete the following information.

   Web Service Connection Details Page

   Field	Description
   Select the Web service from either a: Local file (default) – browse to a file located on the file system that contains connection information. Workspace – browse to the WSDL contained in an existing WorkSpace project. URL – provide a WSDL URL, for example: http://www.ripedevelopment.com/webservices/LocalTime.asmx?WSDL	Select the location from which you want to find the Web service, then click Browse to locate the Web service. You must check From URL to enable the Enable HTTP Authentication field.
   Enable HTTP authentication	Select the checkbox to enable HTTP authentication during WSDL document retrieval. If you enable HTTP authentication, you must enter a user name and password.
   Preemptive authentication	Select the checkbox if this service requires authentication credentials to be sent as part of an initial request, instead of waiting for an HTTP 401 credentials challenge. The property is used for MBO Preview and Test Execute operations, and is also set in the deployment unit so it does not need to be explicitly set in SAP Control Center.

3. Click Next and define the Operations to be included as part of the connection profile. Select the required operations. If operations are defined to depend on each other they should be selected together. Otherwise a WSDL parsing error might be reported. Structures and lists can be selected, simple types are always selected and cannot be unselected.
   The Operations tree contains the entire list of operations and parameters. By default, all operations are selected and the tree nodes are expanded three levels deep. You can select any of these four options:

   • Select all – selects all visible nodes
   • Deselect all – unselects all nodes
   • Collapse all – collapses the tree to the first level
   • Undo collapse – expands those tree nodes that were expanded at the time Collapse all was pressed.

   If a node is selected, all sub-nodes are automatically selected. In addition, the parents up the tree, but not the siblings are selected automatically. Avoid selecting all nodes and sub-nodes if not required, since it can lead to a StackOverflow error for deeply nested trees.

   When finished, the created profile contains only the selected operations and the request/response structures and includes parameters.
4. Click Next to see a summary of the connection properties or click Finish to create the connection profile.

   The connection profile displays under Web Service in the Enterprise Explorer.