How to Use the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard to Publish an Orchestration as a Web Service

You use the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard to publish an orchestration as a Web service.

To publish an orchestration as a Web service

1. Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Microsoft BizTalk Server, and then click BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard.

2. On the Welcome to the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard page, click Next.

3. On the Create Web Service page, select Publish BizTalk orchestrations as web services, and then click Next.

4. On the BizTalk Assembly page, in the BizTalk assembly file (*.dll) text box, type the name of the BizTalk assembly file or click Browse to browse to the assembly containing the orchestration(s) to publish, and then click Next.

   Note

   Before choosing a BizTalk assembly file, copy all of the dependent assemblies into the same folder with the BizTalk assembly or install the dependent assemblies to the Global Assembly Cache (GAC).

   Note

   If you installed the BizTalk assembly file into the GAC, make sure that the assembly in the GAC has been updated with the assembly that you will select in the BizTalk Assembly dialog box. If the GAC has the same fully qualified name, the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard uses the assembly file in the GAC instead of the one you selected.

   Note

   If you open the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard in the Visual Studio containing an orchestration, the BizTalk assembly file populates with the assembly containing the orchestration.

   Note

   Paths over 260 characters may get an error message that the path is too long.

5. On the Orchestrations and Ports page, expand the tree nodes for each assembly and orchestration by clicking the plus sign. Select orchestrations and ports to publish by checking the corresponding tree node check boxes. If you want to create one Web service (.asmx) for all of the selected receive ports instead of one Web service for each receive port, select the Merge all selected ports into a single web service option, and then click Next.

   Note

   When you merge all selected ports into a single web service, the all selected ports have the same port type, and the operations names in the ports are unique.

6. On the Web Service Properties page, in the Target namespace of the web service box, type a target namespace for the Web service, select the appropriate boxes to specify how the wizard should handle SOAP headers and SharePoint Portal Server 2007 Single Sign-On (SSO) support for the Web service. If you want to further customize the Web service implementation, click Advanced button. It will show more available options:

   Option	Value	Description
   SOAP Parameter Style	Default	This option specifies how parameters are formatted in a SOAP message. For more information, see SoapParameterStyle Enumeration at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62259.
   SOAP Parameter Style	Bare	This option specifies how parameters are formatted in a SOAP message. For more information, see SoapParameterStyle Enumeration at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62259.
   SOAP Parameter Style	Wrapped	This option specifies how parameters are formatted in a SOAP message. For more information, see SoapParameterStyle Enumeration at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=62259.
   Conformance Claims	None	This option specifies the Web Services Interoperability (WSI) specification to which the binding claims to conform. For more information, see WebServiceBindingAttribute.ConformsTo Property at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=193064.
   Conformance Claims	WS-I Basic Profile 1.1	This option specifies the Web Services Interoperability (WSI) specification to which the binding claims to conform. For more information, see WebServiceBindingAttribute.ConformsTo Property at https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=193064.
   Force Request Response	[Default]	This option specifies whether one-way BizTalk operations should be exposed as request-response web methods. Default is not force the on-way flag.
   Force Request Response	No	This option specifies whether one-way BizTalk operations should be exposed as request-response web methods. Default is not force the on-way flag.
   Force Request Response	Yes	This option specifies whether one-way BizTalk operations should be exposed as request-response web methods. Default is not force the on-way flag.

7. On the Web Service Properties page, click Next.

   Note

   The selection any of the SOAP header options are applied globally to all Web services and Web methods that are created when running this instance of the wizard.

8. If you selected Add additional SOAP headers option, the Request SOAP Headers and Response SOAP Headers pages appear. You can add and remove request and response SOAP headers using the Add and Remove buttons in the following dialog boxes:

   • To add a SOAP header, click Add. In the BizTalk assembly file (*.dll) text box, type or browse for the assembly containing the SOAP header schema. The Available schema types list view displays each root element of the schema. Select a root node to add as a request or response SOAP header. To select multiple items, hold the CTRL key and click OK.

   • To remove a SOAP header from the list, select it from the list of added SOAP headers, and then click Remove.

   • Click Next on each SOAP Header page to continue the wizard.

   Note

   A target namespace and root element name defines a SOAP header.

   Note

   If the same combination of target namespace/root element name is added as a request and response SOAP header, it will not be treated as an in/out header. You must manually copy the incoming header to the outgoing header inside of an orchestration.

   Note

   The same combination of target namespace/root element name can only be added once as a request SOAP header and once as a response SOAP header.

9. On the Web Service Project page, in the Project name text box, type the name for the project. You can accept the default location (http://localhost/<project_name>), type a location for the project in the Project location text box, or click Browse and select a Web directory. Select any of the following options:

   • Overwrite existing project. This option is only available if the project location already exists. You will only be able to publish to the same location if you select this option. Otherwise, you must enter a different project location.

   • Allow anonymous access to web service. This option adds anonymous access to the created virtual directory. By default, the virtual directory inherits the access privileges from its parent virtual directory or the Web site (if it is a top-level virtual directory).

   • Create BizTalk receive locations. This option automatically creates the SOAP adapter receive ports and locations that correspond to each generated .asmx file. If a receive location already exists, it is not replaced. Receive locations for the SOAP adapter are resolved using the format /<virtual directory name>/<orchestration namespace_typename_portname>.asmx. After selecting this option, choose the application where the receive ports and locations will be generated.

     Note

     The project location can exist on a different server. To publish a Web service to a different server, type the project name as http://<servername>/<project_name>.

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     The project location can exist on a non-default Web site. When publishing to a non-default Web site, include the port number of the Web site in the URL. For example, http://localhost:8080/<project_name>.

     Note

     When using the wizard to create receive locations, the wizard creates the receive locations using the default values. The default value for the receive pipeline is the Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.PassThruReceive pipeline. If messages received through the published Web service require any special pipeline processing (for example, validation, correlation / property promotion, or inbound/outbound maps) then you should set the receive pipeline to Microsoft.BizTalk.DefaultPipelines.XMLReceive, or to a custom pipeline.

     Note

     When you consume (call) Web services from an orchestration, the SOAP adapter only supports pass-through style send pipelines. You can use a custom send pipeline, but it cannot contain components that modify the body parts of the message. These components include the XML Assembler and any encoding components.

     Note

     When you reach this page and if you choose to back out from choosing Publishing schemas as web services option, in the Web Services page, you may see the Web service description displays the service and method names from the BizTalk assembly previous selected before you back out from Publish BizTalk orchestrations as web services option. This is because the in-memory web service description is not cleared when the publishing method is changed.

10. Click Next to review your settings for the ASP.NET Web service project.

11. Click Create to create the ASP.NET Web service.

12. Click Finish to complete the BizTalk Web Services Publishing Wizard.

See Also

Publishing an Orchestration as a Web Service How to Map Orchestrations to Web Services