Searching Providers Searching Endpoints

Figure 7. Searching Providers Enter search criteria. You can enter wild card characters. Then click Find. 2. Search results will be displayed on the page shown in Figure 8 . Figure 8. Searching Providers - Result In Figure 8 , you can also switch result views using the Display drop down list. The default result view is configurable for each user profile . See Section 4, Business Service Control Configuration for more information. If the result view contains too many records, you can filter which records will be displayed as follows: 1. Select the Filter by on which you wish to apply the filter. 2. Enter the filter string in the Filter value edit box. Wildcards can be used. The character is replaced by any number of characters. The _ character is replaced by any single character. The end of the string is treated as if it has a wildcard suffix so there is no need to add a terminating wildcard. 3. Click the Apply button. The view is updated with only those records matching the filter. The result view table can view sorted by each column. To sort, just click on the appropriate column header. Page 175

4.3.1. Searching Providers

Large result lists are divided into multiple pages. The number of records per page can be configured by administrator. See Section 4.4, Paging Limits for details. If you click on the providers name, provider details will displayed as shown in Figure 9 . Figure 9. Searching Providers - Provider Detail See Section 4.6.1, Entity Details for more information. If you access a detail screen from the result view under the Catalog tab, the entity can be edited or deleted. You can also request approval of the entity on a publication registry or create a subscription.

4.3.2. Searching Endpoints

To search for service endpoints: 1. On the Home main menu tab select the Search endpoints link in the right display area. The page in Figure 10 is displayed. Page 176

4.3.2. Searching Endpoints

Figure 10. Searching Endpoints Enter your search criteria. You can enter wild card characters. Then click Find. 2. The search results will be displayed on the page shown in Figure 11 . Page 177

4.3.2. Searching Endpoints

Figure 11. Searching Endpoints - Result To display complete information about an endpoint, click on the endpoint URL in the result view. Endpoint details will be displayed. See Section 4.6.1, Entity Details for more information.

4.4. Publishing

Under the Catalog main menu tab, you can use publishing wizards to publish data to Oracle Service Registry. Note You must be logged in to publish data to Oracle Service Registry. See Section 4.2, User Account to learn how to register your user account. Tip To try publishing wizards, you can use the demo data account with the username demo_john and password demo_john . Figure 12. Catalog Tree Page 178

4.4. Publishing

You can publish the following data to Oracle Service Registry: • Providers - A two-step publishing wizard allows you to enter providers name and description, providers taxonomy classification and contact persons. • Services - A four-step publishing wizard guides you through publishing a service, its interfaces, and its endpoints. • Interfaces - A wizard for publishing and republishing service interfaces. • Resources - This node allows you to start publishing wizards for publishing WSDL files, XML files, XML schema, and XSL transformations. We will demonstrate publishing wizards in the following examples: • Publishing providers •