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| <h1>Eclipse Web Tools Platform 1.5 - New and Noteworthy</h1> |
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| <h2>Web Services</h2> |
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| align="left"><b>New look for Web services wizards</b></td> |
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| <p>The Web Service wizard and Web Service Client wizard have a new look. The first page of these wizards |
| now combines the first three pages of the same wizards in WTP 1.0.</p> |
| <p>On this first page of the wizard, the user can:</p> |
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| <li>Use the drop down combo to select the type of Web service to create.</li> |
| <li>Use the <b>Browse</b> button to browse for the service implementation or service definition.</li> |
| <li>Move the service and client scales on the right-hand side to select whether to develop, |
| assemble, deploy, install, start and test the Web service and Web service client.</li> |
| <li>Obtain a summary of the <b>Server</b>, <b>Web service runtime</b>, <b>project</b> and <b>EAR</b> |
| that will be used for both service and client side.</li> |
| <li>Click on the <b>Server</b>, <b>Web service runtime</b>, <b>project</b> or <b>EAR</b> |
| hyper-links to modify the respective settings.</li> |
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| align="left"><b>Axis 1.3 support</b></td> |
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| <p>The Axis emitters and JARs used by the Web Services wizards are now based on Axis 1.3.</p> |
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| align="left"><b>Axis emitter preference page</b></td> |
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| <p>A new Axis emitter preference has been added to control Axis emitter settings for Wsdl2Java and |
| Java2Wsdl. This include setting timeout and analysing the service class for compliance to JAX-RPC.</p> |
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| <p>A new checkbox is added to the Web services Resource preference to enable the user to turn on |
| skeleton merge. When creating top-down Web service with this preference enabled, the newly generated |
| skeleton implementation file will be merged with the existing implementation files if they exist. This |
| enables the user to preserve user-modified code between different invocation of the Web Services wizards.</p> |
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| align="left"><b>Enhancements in Web Services Explorer</b></td> |
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| <p>When users click the <b>Browse</b> button in the WSDL page, they can now select different categories |
| of WSDL documents to display:</p> |
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| <li>All</li> |
| <li>Favorites</li> |
| <li>Apache Axis Components</li> |
| <li>WorkspaceWSDL documents</li> |
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| <p>Other enhancements in the Web Services Explorer include:</p> |
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| <li>Support for nillables and attributes in the schemas of the WSDL documents.</li> |
| <li>Login support in UDDI page.</li> |
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| <p>Starting in WTP 1.0, users can create bottom-up Web service, top-down Web service and Web service |
| client using Ant tasks. Refer to the <b><a |
| href="../../../jst/components/ws/1.0/tutorials/WebServiceAntTask/WebServiceAntTask.html">Web Service |
| Ant Tasks tutorial</a></b> for instructions on how to use the Ant tasks.</p> |
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| <h2>WSDL Editing Tools</h2> |
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| align="left"><b>Simplified Design View</b></td> |
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| <p>For WTP 1.5, the Design View has been simplified. It has been restructured to de-emphasize Bindings |
| and Messages and to emphasize Operations and Elements/Types.</p> |
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| <p><b>De-Emphasizing Bindings</b></p> |
| <p>Binding information in the Design View has been reworked. They have been de-emphasized because they |
| are expert objects that many users maintain via the Binding generator. By default, the Binding is collapsed |
| and is seen as a single icon. <img |
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| alt="SOAP Binding Icon" /></p> |
| <p>Users can expand them (by double clicking on them) and they will show up as a ruler next to it's |
| associated PortType. See below:</p> |
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| alt="Binding attached to the corresponding PortType" /></p> |
| <p>To edit the Binding, users would click on the Binding object they wish to edit and a corresponding |
| Property Sheet will appear. For example, if the user clicks on a Binding Operation, the Extensions Tab can |
| be used to edit the detailed information for the Binding object. See the Extensions section below for more |
| information.</p> |
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| <p>The editor has hyperlink support in the source view. Hold down the Ctrl key and move the mouse |
| pointer over some reference (ie. reference to some other PortType), and a link appears. If you mouse click |
| on the link, context changes to that reference.</p> |
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| <p>You can provide specialized extension information to your WSDLs via the extensions tab of the |
| Properties View. Use the 'Add..' button to choose from categories of available extensions. Then use the Tree |
| View and the details view to edit the extension information.</p> |
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| <p>In WTP 1.0, XML Schema content was viewed and edited by 'drilling into' the schema object. The XML |
| Schema Editor would then appear within the WSDL Editor. In WTP 1.5, the XML Schema Editor will no longer |
| appear within the WSDL Editor. Instead, a separate XML Schema Editor will be opened on the desired XML |
| Schema object. To launch the XML Schema Editor, the user clicks on the link icon which appears to the right |
| hand side of each Input/Output/Fault Part. This link icon will only appear if the associated type is not a |
| built-in XML Schema Type. See below:</p> |
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| <p>A new external XML Schema Editor is shown below:</p> |
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| <p>In practise WSDL documents are authored using a number of different patterns (html :get and put, soap |
| doc-literal, doc-literal wrapped, rpc-encoded etc.). When creating new content via the graphical |
| view the WSDL editor (e.g. when adding an operation) will recognize the authoring pattern and create |
| new content accordingly.</p> |
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| <p>In WTP 1.5, there is inter-file refactoring in addition to pre-existing intra-file refactoring |
| support. This means that if you rename a top level component such as a PortType, any references to it from |
| other WSDLs in the current project or workspace will be updated.</p> |
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| Inter-file refactoring can be done in two ways: |
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| <li>The refactor context menu option for the WSDL object in the Design or Outline view</li> |
| <li>by clicking on the light bulb icon located beside the "Name" text field in the Properties View |
| of the WSDL object (See Figure below)</li> |
| </ul> |
| <p>If the user simply renames a component without invoking an explicit refactoring the editor behaves |
| just like it did in WTP 1.0. References to renamed components are updated only within the current wsdl file. |
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