Web Services Repositories overview

Before you start creating web services using the M3 Web Services Designer, you must create a web service repository. The web service repository stores metadata for the web services that are created. Metadata is the information about a back-end system services required in order to generate the corresponding web services.

Repositories are used to store the M3 Web Services web services. A local repository uses a directory on a local hard disk (or file server) to store the M3 Web Services metadata. Local repositories can be shared between Designer users by creating the repository on a shared location.

See Creating Web Service repositories.

Note: Ensure that no .XML files apart from web services are stored in the same directory as your local repository. This may cause problems with the repository unintentionally showing external files as web services.

Web service repositories are displayed on the Web Service Repository tab in the Designer. These options are available from the toolbar.


Name	Description
Home	Displays the hierarchy of the selected Web Service Repositories
Back	Returns to the previous view of the Web Service Repositories view
Go Into	Displays the web services available for a selected Web Services Repository
Add Repository Location	Opens a new web service repository location window
Refresh	Refreshes the contents of the Web Service Repositories view
Collapse All	Collapses all expanded Web Service Repository contents in the view
Menu	Contains menu items that allow you to sort or filter the contents of the Web Service Repositories view
Minimize	Minimizes the Web Service Repositories view
Maximize	Maximizes the Web Service Repositories view