How to expose a application service as web service?

Question

<UL>Hi Experts,
   <LI>I have created a business component and application service. i have also built and deployed it,
   <LI>Now I want to expose the application service operation as web service so that I can call the application service from XI or any webservice testing tool like SOAPUI or SOAPSONAR?
   <LI>What are the steps involved in doing this?
   <LI>I have selected application service then right clicked and selected "Expose service as web service".
   <LI>This has generated the WSDL file. After this I don't know what to do.
   <LI>In the WSDL file the soap address location is pointing to a default link (<soap:address location="http://www.example.org/"/>).
   <LI>What will be the actual location look like?
   <LI>For example: http://<CE server>:<Port>/?  <--- what will I have to put here so as to give the exact location?
<LI>Thanks & Regards
<LI>Gopal
</UL>

Answer 1

Hi Gopal,
If I am not wrong, you need not do anything to the WSDL.
If you carefully look at your WSDL in your NWDS, the soap:address attribute will point to the default location. However, the 'location' attribute will be 'Empty'. When you Deploy the Composite Application on the server, the location attribute value will be replaced by http://<server host name>:<port>/<WebService Name>/<Application  Service Name> in the WSDL on the server. The WSDL URL  is generated using the same format, and that is how it recognizes the service.
You can deploy your application on the server and go to the Web Service Navigator and check the WDSL.
Regards,
Ajay