Service Names and Operations

Service names can be of two forms, depending on whether or not the service contains any operations. The two forms are:

• Names consisting of one part, for example, Test or my_service. Simple services have this type of name.
• Names consisting of three parts, for example, http:/tempuri.org/wmapserv#Add. The parts are:
  • The service namespace. This is the part of the name before the first pound (#) character
  • The separator, in this case, the pound (#) character
  • The operation name, in this case Add

  Services with operations have this type of name.

  Service names for Web services use the first pound (#) character as a separator, while names for services that form part of a J2EE application use the last period ( ) character, for example, mybinpservice.operation.

  You can include more than one pound character or period in a service name; Enterprise Server will interpret the first pound character or last period character it finds as the separator.