Searching for Web Services by Category

You can search a UDDI registry for a web service by selecting one or more categories of web service.

You must have a connection from your machine to the Internet as JDeveloper makes a connection to the UDDI registry you select.

If you want to generate a stub at the end of this procedure, there must be at least one workspace and project in the Navigator. If these do not exist, a warning message is displayed and you can choose to continue without creating one, or to cancel the wizard so that you can first create a workspace and project.

To search for a web service by name:

1. If you need to create a new connection to a UDDI registry first see Creating New UDDI Registry Connections.
2. In the Navigator, expand Connections.
• Either right-click UDDI Registry, and choose Find Web Services to launch the Find Web Services wizard,
  or
• Expand UDDI Registry, right-click the UDDI registry you want to search and choose Find Web Services to launch the Find Web Services wizard.
  
3. If the Welcome page is displayed read the summary on it, then click Next.
4. The next page depends on whether you have already selected the UDDI registry you want to use.
   • If you launched the wizard from the UDDI Registry node, select the UDDI Registry you want to search, then click Next to display the Search Kind page.
     or
   • the Search Kind page is already displayed.
5. Select Category and click Next to display the Categories page.
6. You can base your search on more than one taxonomy and category. Select the first Taxonomy, then expand the category nodes and select the category or categories you want to use by clicking on them and clicking the right arrow to move them to the right pane. You can select more than one category by holding down the Ctrl key.
   If you want to use another taxonomy, select it and then select more categories to add to your search criteria. Click Next to display the tModel page.
7. A list of the tModels that fit your search criteria is displayed. When the web service uses WSDL, there is a tick in Is WSDL? Click on the service you want, and click Next to display the Service page.
8. A list of web services that implement the tModel you selected is displayed. Click on the service you one, and click Next to display the Finish page.
9. A description of the web service is displayed.
   • If this is the web service you want, click Next to display the Find Web Services Wizard dialog, or
   • Click Back to amend your search criteria and complete the wizard again.

The Find Web Services Wizard dialog allows you to choose what to do with the web service you have found:

• Generate a Stub to use a Web Service
• Open the Endpoint of a Web Service in a Browser
• Display a Report of a Web Service
• Add the Business Providing a Web Service to the UDDI Browser

Related topics

Configuring UDDI Registry Connections
About UDDI
UDDI Registries