Exposing OFBiz Services as SOAP Web services

2016.10.18 Update

The original text reads as follows:

About ofbiz Web Services

In ofbiz every service can potentialy is invoked as WebService by doing minor modifications to it. You can navigate to service engine application of ofbiz admin to view the services available and other details of the Serv Ices.

Navigate *http://your_host_name/webtools/control/servicelist*

There you can find thousands of services in OFBiz.

Navigate and find the appropriate service which you want to export as Web service. When you find the particular service say for example ' Getorderstatus ', click on it to get the details of the service.

Check exportable option. If its is false make it to true by navigating to the Services.xml file of the particular application. It is /application/order/servicedef/services.xml. Restart ofbiz

Note: Yes plus a export= "true"

Note: Here is the Services.xml file found on the server hard disk, find the service, modify export= "true" if not added.
Example: Find a file  D:\apache\apache-ofbiz-12.04.04\applications\order\servicedef\Services.xml 
Modify <service name= " Getorderstatus "engine=" simple "location=" Component://order/script/org/ofbiz/order/order/orderservices.xml "
            Invoke= "Getorderstatus" auth= "false" >
for
<service name= "Getorderstatus" engine= "simple" location= " Component://order/script/org/ofbiz/order/order/orderservices.xml "
            invoke=" Getorderstatus "auth=" false " Export= "true" >
        

Now your can view the WSDL file of the Servie by navigating to the service engine tools application again and now click on The service name and you can see "Export wsdl" next to the service name. Click on it would display the WSDL

Also need to get the SOAP link as it's given as end point to the Java client to call the Web service from outside app Lication.

So the link is usualy available under

http://your_hostname:8080/webtools/control/SOAPService?wsdl

Reference:

calling OFBiz services from Liferay using SOAP OFBiz Services Documentation