In your WSRP Consumer portal, you can deploy extra service
references for the WSRP service clients.
About this task
The service clients and service references are defined in
the web.xml deployment descriptor of the wps.war web
application that is contained in the portal enterprise application
archive wps.ear. To add service references, you
export the portal enterprise application, modify the web.xml deployment
descriptor, and update the portal enterprise application. To add service
references for your WSRP Consumer portal, proceed by the steps that
are given in the following. Procedure
- Export the portal application EAR file. You start with this step so that you can later add the service references in the
web.xml deployment descriptor. To export the portal application
wps.ear to a temporary portal EAR file, use a WebSphere® Application
Server administrative client, for example, the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console. For details about exporting an enterprise
application, read the WebSphere Application
Server documentation.
- Modify the web.xml deployment descriptor. To import the portal EAR file and to edit the web.xml deployment
descriptor, you can either use an assembly tool, or you can extract or open the portal EAR file and
edit the web.xml deployment descriptor file directly.
- Add service references to the web.xml deployment descriptor. You can add one or multiple service references for the WSRP service clients to the
web.xml. For more information, read the following topic about Adding
service references to the wps.war web application.
- Update the portal application. After you modified the web.xml deployment descriptor, proceed by one of
the following options:
- Export the portal EAR file from the assembly tool.
- Save the modified web.xml file, and save or compress the portal EAR file.
Then, update the portal application from the modified portal EAR file. To do so, you use a WebSphere Application
Server administrative client, for example, the WebSphere Integrated Solutions Console. For details about updating an enterprise application,
read the WebSphere Application
Server documentation.
- Restart your portal. In a stand-alone installation, restart the portal server. In a cluster configuration, restart
the portal on each node.