Development and access to external WSDL URL

Question

Hi All,
I am developing a SOA application with BPEL composite which also makes calls to an external third party webservice. Due to security reasons, the external third party webservice URL is only accessible from our Development server machine (and not my local machine running JDeveloper). Issue with this is the SOA application development is done using Jdeveloper 11.1.1.4 on my local machine.
Overview of my application is
WebService (Synchronous Request/Response Client interface ) ---> BPEL ---> Third Party webService (Partnerlink)
1) Using the Client interface the user enters startTime and EndTime values
2) The startTime and endTime is input message to the BPEL process.
3) The BPEL process then sends the request to the third party web service (partnerlink) and gets a response message back and returns to the client.
I tried workaround for the same by asking the third party for WSDL and associated XSDs and included these locally in my SOA application project. However trying to deploy the completed SOA application and keep getting this error.
ERROR MESSAGE_
[03:40:25 PM] Error message from server:
There was an error deploying the composite on WLS_SOA: Error occurred during deployment of component: DataRetrievalService to service engine: implementation.bpel, for composite: DataRetrievalService: ORABPEL-09705
Could not initialize variable.
An error occurs while initializing BPEL variable RetrieveEventSummary_GetEventSummary_InputVariable; the schema processor cannot find the element {http://schemas.internet.com/asiapac/cad/integration/1.0.0}GetEventSummaryRequest in the following schemas: oracle.fabric.common.wsdl.SchemaManager@1cf57b6b.
The XSD element on which the variable was based was not properly defined in XSD or the WSDL.
Ensure that the element named in the error message is valid in the XSD or the WSDL.
Questions_
1) Please suggest, is it possible to develop a SOA application which makes service call to external URL, while the local development machine cannot access the external WSDL URL.
2) Also, in such cases in future deployments to test and production do I still need access to external WSDL URL from my machine. I deploy the completed SOA application from my local machine to the Development Server. The Development Server machine is configured to accessed the third-party WSDL URL.
Thanks
Edited by: user5108636 on 11/07/2011 23:53

Answer 1

It seems WSDL is not complete or invalid. Check whether it references element {http://schemas.internet.com/asiapac/cad/integration/1.0.0}GetEventSummaryRequest and this element has been defined in the XSD imported/defined in WSDL.
1) Please suggest, is it possible to develop a SOA application which makes service call to external URL, while the local development machine cannot access the external WSDL URL.Yes, it is possible but complete and valid WSDL must be available locally.
2) Also, in such cases in future deployments to test and production do I still need access to external WSDL URL from my machine. I deploy the completed SOA application from my local machine to the Development Server. The Development Server machine is configured to accessed the third-party WSDL URL.If server can access the third party WS URL then that is sufficient. No need to have access from local machine. Just deploy it on server and then test there.
Regards,
Anuj