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Module deployment properties
In IBM Integration Designer, you can use the module deployment editor to specify and retain changes to module deployment properties in deployment descriptor files.
Using the module deployment editor, you can accomplish numerous tasks relating to module deployment properties, such as:
- Changing URLs for web service exports
- Creating and assigning security roles for web service exports
- Binding security roles (including roles that are defined in assembly diagrams)
- Editing WS-Security properties for JAX-RPC exports and imports
- Adding JAX-RPC handlers for web service exports
- Adding JAX-RPC handlers for web service imports
- Adding resource references
Editing module deployment properties is a task that is best suited to advanced users of IBM Integration Designer. This is especially true of module deployment properties that relate to web services security, which requires a solid understanding of the OASIS Web Services Security (WS-Security) specification.
To work with the module deployment editor, you should be familiar with the Rational Application Developer tools used to manage properties in the deployment descriptor files, such as the web services editor and the EJB deployment descriptor editor. However, you can successfully use the module deployment editor with only a basic understanding of modules and web services exports and imports.
When you use the module deployment editor to change the deployment properties for a module, your changes are saved to an XML deployment side file named ibm-deploy.scaj2ee that resides directly under your module in the Physical Resources view of the Business Integration perspective. The side file automatically updates the module deployment properties in the deployment descriptor files whenever your deploy code is regenerated during a build or when your module is installed on the server. This ensures that your changes are retained even though the deploy code is periodically regenerated.
The deployment side file contains the name and relative folder location of any web services imports or exports. If you choose to rename or move an import or export using refactoring, the name and folder location of the import or export is automatically refactored in the deployment side file.
Although the module deployment editor documentation provides basic information on using the editor to manage module deployment properties, detailed information on managing web services and their deployment properties is found in the IBM redbook WebSphere Version 6 Web Services Handbook - Development and Deployment (SG246461), which is available at the following IBM Redbooks site: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com