SaaS Components and the Web Service Manager

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The Web Services Manager is an expanded set of functionality added to the Web Services node in the IDE's Services tab. It supersedes the Palette for RESTful web services.

Dragging and Dropping SaaS Operations

The Web Service Manager displays a list of preregistered SaaS (Software as a Service) web service components.

To add SaaS operations to a web application:

  1. Go to the related homepage of the web service and obtain the required keys and codes, if necessary:
  2. Drag the item from the Services tab.
  3. Drop the item in the resource class.
  4. Fill in the applicable details in the dialog box that appears.

All the plumbing code for accessing the service is generated by the IDE when you finish the drag-and-drop action.

Accessing SaaS Service API

Right-click a service's node. Select View API Document in the service node's context menu and the API opens in a browser window.

Opening Service WADL

Click View WADL in the service node's context menu and the WADL opens in the IDE's editor. WADL is a simple alternative to WSDL for use with XML/HTTP Web applications. See for more information about the Java net WADL project.

See Also
About Web Services
Generating a RESTful Web Service from Scratch
Generating RESTful Web Service component Stubs
Testing a RESTful Web Service

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