30 DataPower SOA Appliance Service Planning, Implementation, and Best Practices
The Web Service Proxy has powerful monitoring and logging capabilities. Web
services traffic that flows through a Web Service Proxy can be monitored and
logged at the service level down to the WSDL operation level. Other features of a
Web Service Proxy are service-level monitoring (SLM), WS-ReliableMessaging,
WS-Policy, and WS-Addressing.
2.3.1 WSDL management
Developers create a Web Service Proxy by providing one or more Web Services
Description Language (WSDL) files for the Proxy service to parse and use as the
basis for the various elements of the service. Management of the WSDL files on
which the service is based is a key element of managing a WSP. This section ...