SharePoint Web Services: Example 2

Having identified the SharePoint Web Service endpoint URL, we're able to publish the service as a Presto SOAP Service. Presto requres the URL of the Web Service WSDL which we can get by appending ?wsdl to the Web Service Endpoint address.

The following information is required to publish a SOAP Service on Presto:

1. A URL for the Web Service WSDL, eg. for the Lists Web Service,http://www.mycompany.com/sites/MySite/_vti_bin/Lists.asmx?wsdl. The URL must include the ?wsdl query.
2. NTLM credentials, username, password and domain.

Optionally:

• Choose an existing or create a new Presto Application to which the Service will be assigned.
• Select a Service Provider to be associated with the service.
• Choose one or more service Tags, for example you may wish to tag services with the name "SharePoint" and all services from a given site with the SharePoint Site name.

Note that the initial service publishing stage will fail if the ?wsdl property is not included in the Web Service URL.

Password credentials are stored by Presto in encrypted form.

The full procedure for publishing a SOAP Service on Presto is detailed here Publishing a SOAP Service on Presto

Having published and activated the service, the service is now mashable, which we'll discuss in the next article, Mashing SharePoint Web Services.