Web services preferences

To set any of the Web services preferences, follow these steps:

Click Window > Preferences to open the Preferences notebook.
Expand Web services or Web and XML, and click the preference category that you want to set
Select the check boxes that you want to set as the default when creating your Web service.
Click OK to apply the changes and close the Preferences notebook.

If you require more information on any of the options, select the option and press F1.

Web services tools enable you to define the following preferences:

Popup Dialog Selection

The Dialogs preferences enable you to determine which dialog boxes that you want to see when running popup actions. If you have disabled any of the dialogs by selecting "Do not show this dialog again" on the first page of a Web services wizard, you can undo your change by clearing the check box beside the dialog that you have chosen to hide.

Profile Compliance and Validation

The Profile Compliance preferences allow you to select your level of compliance with the WS-I Simple SOAP Binding Profile (SSBP) and WS-I Attachement Profile (AP). Note: if you change the level of WS-I compliance while WS-I incompliances are listed in the Task view, the Task view will not be automatically updated. The workspace must be revalidated before the warnings will be removed from the Task view. For more information on WS-I, refer to: http://www.ws-i.org/

For validation preferences, you can choose whether or not WSDL files consumed by the Web services wizards are validated, and whether or not the WSDL validation must complete before the wizard will move to the next step.

Project Topology

The Project Topology preferences allow you to:

Select the default client project type that the Web services wizards will create when generating a Web service client. You can also set the order in which the client project types will be listed in the wizard. Note that this selection is simply a default and an alternate project type can be selected in the wizard.
Select whether you want to generate the Web service and the Web service client in the same EAR project or different EAR projects. Generating the service and client into different EAR projects can reduce the chance of conflicts that occur when both exist in a single EAR project, but uses more system resources.

Resource Management

The Resource Management preferences enable you to determine the file and folder creation and overwriting defaults that you want to use when creating your Web service.

Scenario Defaults

The Scenario Defaults preferences enable you to set the following scenario defaults that you want to use when creating your Web service:

which type of Web service you want to be selected by default.
whether or not you want the Web service started by the wizard.
if you want the Web Services Explorer to launch by default so that you can publish your Web service to a UDDI registry.
if you want to generate a proxy and the default type of proxy generated.
if you want the Web Services Explorer to launch by default so that you can test the Web service.
if you want the Web service SOAP traffic routed through a TCP/IP monitor so that you can monitor the SOAP packets and optionally test them for WS-I compliance.

Note that all these defaults can be overridden in the wizard.

Server and Runtime

Select the server, Web service run-time environment, and J2EE version that you want selected by default in the Web services wizard. Note that all these defaults can be overridden in the wizard.

Test Facility Defaults

can select whether to have the wizard automatically launch a test facility, and you can select your preferred type of test facility

WSDL files

When creating a WSDL file in the WSDL editor, you can set the default target namespace. If you do not select to change the default, your WSDL file will have http://tempuri.org as its target namespace.