Migrating MWS 1.6 Web Services to M3 Web Services Designer

To complete this procedure, you must have access rights to the MWS 1.6 Server.

If you have not been assigned a user name and password for the MWS 1.6 Server, please contact your MWS Server administrator.

Use this procedure to migrate an MWS 1.6 service.

In the Servers tab, click to expand an MWS 1.6 server.
Select a web service. Drag it to a web services repository.

The Select Server window is displayed.
Select a server with an M3 configuration and click Next.

The Select Configuration window is displayed.
Select an M3 configuration.

The configuration details are dependent on the M3 Web Services Server that you have chosen in the previous step.

By choosing the M3 Server, in this step, you are creating a connection to the specified M3 Server to retrieve the metadata.

The metadata that was not available in the MWS 1.6 Web Services will be retrieved from this M3 Server while migrating the web services to run in M3 Web Services Server.
Specify a back-end server view user name and password.

Click Next.
Select the system configuration that you want to use in fetching additional metadata required by M3 Web Services.
Click Next.

The Create Field Alias window is displayed.
Check the Create aliases for field names check box if you want to automatically fetch aliases for the fields in the method.

Note: You could change your web services clients to use aliases instead in order for the web services to work. If you, however, still wish to use field names in your old or new web services clients, you could clear the Create aliases for field names check box.

Click Finish.