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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>
</div>
<ol>
<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 Actions pane toolbar, click the <strong>Publish</strong> icon
<img src="../images/publish2.gif" alt="Picture of the Publish icon." />.</span></li>
<li><span>Select <span class="uicontrol">Business</span> and select the <strong>Simple</strong> radio
button.</span></li>
<li><span>Enter the publish URL, your user ID, password, 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 business entity. Businesses can now discover information
about your business.</p>
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<div class="familylinks">
<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 <span class="uicontrol">Business</span> and 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>Add</strong> to create the URL where your business
entity can be discovered.</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 business entity. Businesses can now discover information
about your business.</p>
</div>
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<div class="familylinks">
<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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