Use OpenEdge Management or OpenEdge Explorer or WSAMAN to deploy SOAP Web services to a particular Web Service Adapter (WSA) instance and to manage deployed Web services at run time. The WSA is a Java servlet running on a Web server or stand-alone Java Servlet Engine (JSE). Situated between the client and AppServer, this Java servlet understands how to pass communications at run time between a Web service client and the AppServer. Each deployed Web service behaves according to a predefined set of run-time properties. These properties are initially set to default values for all Web services deployed to a WSA instance. You can set and reset their values for each Web service individually, under prescribed run-time conditions.

CAUTION: You can update a deployed Web service to change its deployment information and object definitions. However, you should not update a Web service that is enabled for live access by production clients. Instead, create a new version of the Web service with the intended updates and deprecate the old version of the Web service once all clients have moved to the new version.

For more information on deploying and managing a deployed Web service, see OpenEdge Application Server: Administration. For information on configuring a WSA instance, see Configure a Web Service Adapter instance.