Web Service Details Window Terminology

In Application Designer and System Designer, you can use the Web Service Details window to review, define, and edit operations and their parameters for Web service provider endpoints on ASP.NET applications. You can also view, but not edit, operations and parameters for external and BizTalk Web services. For more information, see Overview of Application Designer and Overview of System Designer.

Note

The Web Service Details window supports only Web service provider endpoints.

For more information, see the following topics:

• Overview of ASP.NET Applications on Application Diagrams

• Defining Operations for ASP.NET Web Services

• How to: View Endpoints from System Diagrams

The following illustration shows elements of the Web Service Details window.

Web Service Details Window

The following table introduces terminology associated with the Web Service Details window.

Term	Definition
Web service (provider) endpoint	Refers to an endpoint that exposes a Web service. For more information, see Application Designer Terminology.
Operation	Describes an action provided by a Web service.
Parameter	Describes a value passed to an operation.
Type	Describes an operation return type, if needed, or a parameter type. Once the application is implemented, the type list displays language-specific types.
Modifier	Describes how to pass a parameter to an operation, depending on the programming language chosen for the Web service.
Summary	Describes comments for the operation. These comments appear in the Web service class or the WSDL file for the Web service.

See Also

Concepts

Overview of Distributed System Designers

Workflow Across Distributed System Designers

Distributed System Designers Terminology Overview