Web Service Properties

You can modify an object's properties from its property sheet. To open a web service property sheet, double-click its Browser entry in the Web Services folder. The following sections detail the property sheet tabs that contain the properties most commonly entered for web services.

The General tab contains the following properties:

Property	Description
Name	Name of the web service. Used in URIs to access the web service. It can neither start with a slash nor contain two consecutive slashes
Code	Code of the web service
Comment	Descriptive label for the web service
Stereotype	Sub-classification used to extend the semantics of an object without changing its structure; it can be predefined or user-defined
Local path	Name prefixing the web service. If you type a path, the User-Defined tool (beside the Local path box) is pushed-in. Click the User-Defined tool to recover the original path. The default value is the name of the web service
Service type	[ASA, ASE, and IQ only] Specifies the type of web service. You can choose from: DISH - [ASA and IQ only] acts as a proxy for a group of SOAP services and generates a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) file for each of its SOAP services. When you create a DISH service, you must specify a prefix name (on the Extended Attributes tab) for all the SOAP services to which the DISH service applies. PowerDesigner treats SOAP web services as Web operations (see Web Operations (PDM)) of DISH web services. HTML – [ASA and IQ only] the result of the SQL statement or procedure is formatted as an HTML document (with a table containing rows and columns). RAW - the result of the SQL statement or procedure is sent without any additional formatting. SOAP - [ASE only] generates a WSDL (Web Services Description Language) file. XML - the result of the SQL statement or procedure is sent in XML. By default, the result is converted into XML RAW format.