Discovery Dialog

You can use the Discovery dialog to discover information about a web service through the use of a WSDL file. This dialog enables you to specify a WSDL file, binding, and operation and then perform a discovery process that queries the WSDL file and populates the results into the appropriate fields in the Web Services Properties dialog. This information can include the web service address, a selected action, a request and associated inputs, and response and associated outputs.

The Discovery dialog contains the following elements:

WSDL Address - Specifies the location of a web service WSDL file. You can click Browse to find the file in a local or shared network drive.

Binding - Specifies the binding to call on the web service associated with the specified WSDL file.

Operation - Specifies the operation to call on the selected binding of the web service associated with the specified WSDL file.

Security - Displays the Security dialog, which allows you to enter credentials for connecting to the web service. You can also enter information about a proxy, if one is used.