Exposing ADF BC as Service Interface

Here I have provided detailed steps to expose ADF Business Components as a Web service interface using sample application.

Steps:

• Create an ADF application

• Go to Model project and right click New

• Select Business Components from Tables

• Select Database connection and click OK

• Select required tables as entity objects

• Select required View Objects

• Choose Application Module

• Click Finish to create Business Components in Model project

• Click on Application Module and go to Service Interface section. Click on Green plus icon.

• Check ‘Generate Asynchronous Web Service Methods’

• Select required component instances and respective operations

• Click Finish to create Service Interface

• Right click on Model project --> select New --> Go to Deployment Profiles section. Select Business Components Service Interface

• Provide Deployment profile name and click OK

• Go to Application Properties --> Deployment --> New

• Select Archive Type as EAR file and provide name

• In the EAR Deployment Profile editor, select the node Application Assembly and select only MiddleTier and click OK.

• Back in the Deployment page for the Application Properties; uncheck the checkbox “Auto Generate and Synchronize weblogic-jdbc.xml Descriptors During Deployment”

• Go to ApplicationModule --> Configuration. Set AM Service configuration as Default Configuration

• Go to Model Project Properties --> Java EE Application --> Change Web application name and Web Context root as needed

• Create required Data Source in Weblogic Console

• Deploy to Weblogic Server

• After successful deployment, Login to WLS console and go to deployments. Click on deployed application --> go to Testing tab. Check the Test URL. Alternatively, you can login to EM console to get WSDL details

• Open browser and access deployed application WSDL

• Copy the service location URL from WSDL and access the URL from browser. Check the list of operations available

• Select any one operation and test it