ActiveBPEL® Designer User’s Guide

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Importing a Service Reference

A service reference is a project-based catalog of external WSDL services. You can import external services to a project, while still maintaining a connection to the external location. A service reference is treated as the original location, but resolved locally.

By importing a service reference, you can:

• Compare the local WSDL with the original source
• Update from the original source
• Automatically catalog the WSDL in Interfaces view for ease of use

To import a locally connected copy of an external WSDL:

1. Right-mouse click on the Service Reference folder in your orchestration project and select Import.
2. Paste in the URL of a WSDL that may be on your network server, intranet, or internet.
3. Associate imported services with a Service Group folder. A Service Group Folder contains the imported service and all of its imports, such as WSDL and XSD files.

To compare a local WSDL with its original source, right-mouse click on the Service Group folder and select Compare with>Import Source.

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