Limitations of Web services

This file contains a comprehensive list of limitations, both permanent and temporary, that affect Web services.
The limitations that you may encounter while working with Web services are divided into the following sections:

Supported software and specifications

The Web Services Explorer supports the following Web browsers:

  • Microsoft® Internet Explorer 6.0 or higher
  • Mozilla 1.2.1 or higher
  • Firefox 1.0 or higher

If you are launching the WORF test environment outside the workbench using Mozilla, a Mozilla version of at least 1.3.1 is recommended. Output from invoking your web service as well as description files may not be rendered correctly in earlier versions of the Mozilla browser.

Problems encountered when using the Web Services wizards

Problems encountered when using WebSphere JAX-RPC runtime environment

Problems with using Apache Axis 1.3 run-time environment

Limitations when creating a Web service client

Web Services Explorer problems

Private UDDI Registry problems

Problems encountered when setting Web service properties

Using the Universal Test Client

Problems when using Web services command line

Problems encountered when working in a Team Development Environment

When Web projects are being shared in a ClearCase® team environment, several Add to Source Control dialogs will open during Web service and Web service client creation if the Web service run-time environment selected is IBM WebSphere or Apache Axis 1.3. In order to suppress these dialogs, do the following:
  1. From the Window menu, select Preferences
  2. Expand Team in the left-hand pane. Select ClearCase.
  3. In the right-hand pane, change the value of the drop-down labeled When new resources are added to Automatically add to source control.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Go to ClearCase > Set Current Activity.
  6. In the dialog that opens, select a default activity. Click OK.

Web services cheat sheet

In the Create ,test and validate a WS-I compliant Web Service Cheat sheet and Create a Web Service from a WSDL file CheatSheet, if you are using the HelloService.wsdl file from the wsad_install/wstools/eclipse/plugins/com.ibm.etools.cs.wsdl.content_ver/examples, please modify the service port location according to the different run-time environment as follows: location="http://localhost:9080/HelloWorldSample/services/Hello_Port"

If you are importing your own wsdl file, make sure that the location is set properly according to the run-time environment selected as mentioned above.


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