The Overview tab displays public information about the services, including:
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The WSDL that describes the exposure of the web services.
Clients of the web service use the WSDL file to
determine how to call the web services and what data
will be returned.
The WSDL exposes both methods and callbacks on the services.
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The service description, including the service's available methods and callbacks.
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The Console tab displays private information about your service, including:
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How the service is implemented.
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Pushbuttons to clear the conversation state and logs for the services.
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The Test Form tab provides a simple test environment for public
methods:
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You can provide parameters for a method and examine its
return value. You can also track and test the different
parts of a conversation.
To start the test, click on the Start button.
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Information about the service request and response,
including the XML message returned.
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The conversation ID that appears in the Message Log
sub-window uniquely identifies each conversation that is
underway.
Click on the ID to select this conversation.
You can view the results for each method or callback
that has participated in this conversation by clicking on
its name in the list.
Click the Refresh link to refresh the message log.
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The Test XML tab shows XML data sent to your service.
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If your method takes parameters of a data type other than String, you
must modify the parameter placeholders in the SOAP body before you
click the button to call the method. For example, if your method
expects an integer, you must supply a valid integer in the SOAP body.
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