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<h1 class="topictitle1">Publishing a business entity</h1>
<div><p>A business entity contains information about the business that
has published a service.  Before you can publish a business service,
you must publish a business entity.</p>
<div class="p">Prerequisites:<ol>
<li><a href="treg.html">Register with a registry</a></li>
<li><a href="tstrtexp.html">Launch the Web Services Explorer</a></li>
<li><a href="taddreg.html">Add the registry to the Web Services Explorer</a></li>
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<div class="section"><p>You can publish a business entity using two different publication
formats: simple and advanced.</p>
<blockquote> <p> <span class="uicontrol">Simple</span> Allows
you to enter the minimal amount of information required to publish your business
entity.  A simple publish only allows you to specify only one name and
one business description.</p>
<p> <span class="uicontrol">Advanced </span> Allows you
to enter more information about your business entity. An advanced publish
allows you to specify multiple names and descriptions for multi-lingual support.</p>
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<h2 class="topictitle2">Publish a business entity using the simple option</h2>
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<div class="section"><p>To publish a business entity using the simple option:</p>
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<li><span>In the Web Services Explorer, select UDDI Main and select the registry
to which you want to publish the business entity.</span></li>
<li><span>In the Navigator pane, select the business entity for which
you want to publish the business service.</span></li>
<li><span>In the Actions pane toolbar, click the <strong>Publish</strong> icon <img src="../images/publish2.gif" alt="Picture of the Publish icon." />.</span>
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<li><span>Select the <strong>Simple</strong> radio button.</span></li>
<li><span>Enter the publish URL, your user ID, password, WSDL URL, business
name, and business description in the respective fields.</span></li>
<li><span>Click <strong>Go</strong> to publish your business entity.</span></li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><p>The IBM<sup>®</sup> Web
Services Explorer is automatically updated with your published Web service.
The registry contains pointers to the URL of the WSDL service document of
the Web service. Businesses can now discover and integrate with your Web service.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="../tasks/tuddiexp.html" title="Through UDDI and WSIL, other applications can discover WSDL documents and bind with them to execute transactions or perform other business processes.">Publishing Web services and business entities</a></div>
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<h2 class="topictitle2">Publish a business entity using the advanced option</h2>
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<div class="section"><p>To publish a business entity using the advanced option:</p>
</div>
<ol>
<li><span>In the  Web Services Explorer Navigator pane, select the business
entity for which you want to publish the business service.</span></li>
<li><span>In the Actions pane toolbar, click the <strong>Publish Service</strong> icon
<img src="../images/pubserv.gif" alt="Picture of the Publish Service icon." />.</span></li>
<li><span>Select the <strong>Advanced</strong> radio button.</span></li>
<li><span>Enter the publish URL, your user ID, password, and WSDL URL in
the respective fields.</span></li>
<li><span>Click <strong>Add</strong> to create business names.</span></li>
<li><span>Click <strong>Add</strong> to create business descriptions.</span></li>
<li><span>Click <span class="uicontrol">Add</span> to create an identifier. For example,
an identifier for your business entity may be your business phone number.
The key name would be "Phone Number" and the key value would be your business
telephone number. </span></li>
<li><span>Click <strong>Add</strong> to create categories. Enter your business categories.
Select a category type from the drop down list. Click <strong>Browse</strong> to open
the Categories pane. Navigate through the hierarchical taxonomy and select
the appropriate classification for your business service, then exit the Categories
pane.</span></li>
<li><span>Click <strong>Go</strong> to publish your business entity.</span></li>
</ol>
<div class="section"><p>The Web Services Explorer is automatically updated with your published
Web service. The registry contains pointers to the URL of the WSDL service
document of the Web service. Businesses can now discover and integrate with
your Web service.</p>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="../tasks/tuddiexp.html" title="Through UDDI and WSIL, other applications can discover WSDL documents and bind with them to execute transactions or perform other business processes.">Publishing Web services and business entities</a></div>
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<div class="linklist"><strong>Related Concepts</strong><br />
<div><a href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/concepts/cwsinwsa.html"> Tools for Web services development</a></div>
<div><a href="../../org.eclipse.jst.ws.doc.user/concepts/cws.html">Web services development</a></div>
<div><a href="../concepts/cuddi.html" title="Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI) specification defines a way to publish and discover information about Web services.">Universal Description, Discovery, and Integration (UDDI)</a></div></div>
<div class="linklist"><strong>Related Tasks</strong><br />
<div><a href="tuddiexp.html" title="Through UDDI and WSIL, other applications can discover WSDL documents and bind with them to execute transactions or perform other business processes.">Publishing Web services and business entities</a></div>
<div><a href="tstrtexp.html" title="The Web services tools allows you to launch the Web Services Explorer in several ways.">Launching the Web Services Explorer</a></div>
<div><a href="treg.html" title="In order to publish your business entity and Web service to a UDDI registry, you must first register with the registry that you want to use.">Registering with a UDDI registry</a></div></div>
<div class="linklist"><strong>Related Reference</strong><br />
<div><a href="../ref/ruddi.html" title="Once you have registered and logged in to the UDDI registry that you want to use, you can register your Web service. Registration of a service involves four core data structure types: business information, service information, binding information, and information describing the specifications for services. The relationship between these data types is described in Figure 1.">Data structure types (UDDI registry)</a></div></div>
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