Exporting the Web services handler
The Web services handler is the repository of Web services available on your ArcGIS Server. The Web services handler can be exported for migration from the ArcGIS Server Manager to a production Web server or application server. By default, the services you create and deploy in Manager are available through Manager's internal Web server. This, however, is not a recommended production environment. By exporting the Web services handler into a standard .war file, you can deploy this as an application to an ESRI-supported J2EE server.
To do this, follow these steps:
- In Manager, go to the Services tab.
- Click the Configure Services Handler panel.
- Click the Export tab.
- Enter a name for the WAR file that will be created.
- The SOAP URL parameter is not required for the Web services handler and is disabled.
- Enter the credentials of a user who is a member of the ArcGIS Server administrators group. Click Test Connection to validate the connection information.
- If using a distributed setup of ArcGIS Server, specify additional ArcGIS Servers for failover or round robin, as necessary. This step is optional.
- To secure access to the exported ArcGIS Web services handler, configure the security options. This step is optional.
- Click Export.
- A file download window will appear. Click Save.
- In the file dialog box, choose All Files for the file type and browse to the location where you wish to export the WAR file.
You will now be able to deploy this WAR file to any standard J2EE server. After deployment, you can verify it by browsing to the WSDL for the new Web services handler. For example, if the name of the WAR file or instance were wshandler, you could browse to the following URL:
http://yourserver:<port>/wshandler/services?wsdl
This would provide the WSDL for accessing the individual services running in this instance. If you had exported a map service called brazil, you could access its WSDL in the following manner:
http://yourserver:<port>/wshandler/brazil/MapServer?wsdl