Web Services support
WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
Integrated support for WebSphere Service Registry and Repository:
Registry contains a variety of entities such as WSDL, XSD together with their relationships and associated user properties.
True governance can be achieved by using the registry to determine Message Broker processing.
Development activities using WebSphere Service Registry and Repository:
Use the application development plug-in to search the registry directly for a particular entity.
Use entities from the repository to enable rapid development of message flows and message sets.
Runtime interactions with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository
Message flows can use access and select specific registry entities
New nodes to support retrieval of entities and services:
RetrieveEntity
RetrieveITService
Web services security
Support for WS-Addressing Endpoint References and Message addressing properties.
Support for WS-Security authentication, encryption and signing:
Authentication using username and password
X509 certificates for authentication
Comprehensive encryption and signing algorithms
Configuration using Policy Sets
New SOAP nodes
Full support for Web Services Provider and Consumer scenarios with 5 new SOAP nodes:
Provider nodes:
SOAPInput
SOAPReply
Consumer nodes:
SOAPRequest
SOAPAsyncRequest
SOAPAsyncResponse
These nodes can be combined to provide a Web service intermediary.
Processing of SOAP payload and headers are simplified with additional new SOAP nodes:
SOAPEnvelope
SOAPExtract
Enhanced support for transports and message formats
Multiple transports supported including HTTP, any JMS 1.1 provider, and MQ
Standard formats supported including WSDL 1.1, MTOM/XOP, and SOAP with attachments
Simplified use of WSDL
Processing of requests simplified with a native WSDL parser
Simplified WSDL import and export
Simplified the creation and configuration of message flows with WSDL drag and drop