Configure your Web services application

WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries is a workstation-based graphical tool. It contains several WebSphere Studio tools that you can use to develop and configure your applications for WebSphere Application Server - Express. For more information, see WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries (http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/wdt400/).

Note: You must use WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries, Version 5.1 or later.

To create or modify your Web services security configuration, you must edit the deployment descriptor for your application. Use the Web Services Editor in WebSphere Development Studio Client for iSeries.

If your application is a Web service, the deployment descriptor is the webservices.xml file. If your application is a Web services client, the deployment descriptor is the webservicesclient.xml file.

Perform the following steps in the Development Studio Client to open the deployment descriptor for editing:

1. In the Navigator panel, expand your Web module.

   If the Navigator is not shown, you can open it by clicking Window --> Show View --> Navigator.

2. Expand WebContent --> WEB-INF.

3. Open the deployment descriptor in the Web Services Editor:

   • If your application is a Web service, right-click the webservices.xml file, and select Open With --> Web Services Editor.
   • If your application is a Web service client, right-click the webservicesclient.xml file, and select Open With --> Web Services Client Editor.

In the Web Services Editor, there are several tabs at the bottom of the editor. Use the Security Extensions and Bindings Configuration tabs to configure Web services security.

Note: Although you open the webservices.xml or webservicesclient.xml file in the Web Services Editor, the Web services security configuration is written to the following files:

• For a Web service:

  • ibm-webservices-ext.xmi
    The security extensions configuration specifies what security is to be performed.

  • ibm-webservices-bnd.xmi
    The security bindings configuration indicates how to perform the security that is specified in the security extensions configuration.

• For a Web services client:

  • ibm-webservicesclient-ext.xmi
    The security extensions configuration specifies what security is to be performed.

  • ibm-webservicesclient-bnd.xmi
    The security bindings configuration indicates how to perform the security that is specified in the security extensions configuration.