development/news/3.1M6/webservices.xml

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		<item title="Web Services Wizard settings are saved">
			<description>
			       Previous to WTP 3.1, many text entry fields did not persist previously entered/selected values. New in WTP 3.1 M6, the text entry fields are editable combo boxes- upon completion of the wizards, values from previous invocations are persisted and can be selected again. Further, values in Service definition/implementation fields are filtered according to the selected Web service or Client type.
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			       <img src="webservices/Webservices001.png" alt="Bottom up Java bean Web Service" />
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			       <img src="webservices/Webservices002.png" alt="Top down Java bean Web Service" />
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			       <img src="webservices/Webservices003.png" alt="Web Services Client wizard" />
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			       The ANT import wizard has been improved to allow the user to import ANT files specific to the Web service runtime Web service type they are interested in. This allows for better organization of files related to Web services ANT, and gets rid of the requirement to update the wsgen file according to the Web service type they are interested in. Further an extension point has been added to allow adopters to extend the wizard, adding their own Web service runtimes and Web service types.
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			       <img src="webservices/Webservices004.png" alt="ANT Import" />
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		<item title="Service definition extension point added so adopters can provide a way to locate workspace artifacts">
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               A new service definition locator extension point has been added to allow adopter extensions to register their own IFile to URI converter to 'customize' how to look up and resolve files.
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			   See &lt;extension-point id="ifile2uriconverter" schema="schema/ifile2uriconverter.exsd"/&gt;
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			   in org.eclipse.wst.ws.			   
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		<item title="WSDL 1.4 removed from WTP">
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			   The WSDL 1.4 bundle (javax.wsdl_1.4.0) has been removed from the WTP distribution zips.
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		<item title="Prompt user for file when adding a WSDL import from the WSDL Editor">
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			   If the preference is turned on, whenever the user adds a WSDL import, a dialog will appear to prompt the user to specify the location of the file to be imported.
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		       <img src="webservices/WSDL001.PNG" alt="WSDL Files Prompt for location preference" />
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