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