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Managing Business Entities

Business entities describe the businesses that publish web services to UDDI servers. A business entity contains discovery URLs, contact information, and services. The following sections describe how to view, add, and edit business entity information.

Viewing or Editing a Business Entity and Services

To view a business entity, perform the following procedure:

1.	Click the UDDI Servers module, then click the UDDI server name that contains the business in the server list.

2.	The View UDDI Server Detail panel appears. The Businesses area lists all businesses contained in the UDDI server. The business list contains a list of business names, descriptions, and UUID key values for each business.

Use the Search field to locate the desired business if the list of businesses is not easily seen.

3.	Click the name of the business to display the View Business Detail panel. This panel displays the following:

Field	Description
Name	Name of the business.
Key	UUID key for the business.
Description	Description of the business.
Authorized Name	The name of the user that published the business entity.
Services	A list of web services available from this business. See Adding Services for more information about adding and editing services.

4.

Click the Edit button to display the Manage Business panel and edit any of the business details. Only authorized users can edit business entities. The Manage Business panel also allows you to add discovery URLs or contact information for this business. See Adding a Business Entity for more information.

5.	The Services area lists the services available for this business entity. You can add web services that are in deployed and running TIBCO Administrator applications by clicking the Add button. See Adding Services for more information.

Adding a Business Entity

If you are authorized to publish to a UDDI sever, you can add a business entity by performing the following procedure:

1.	Click the UDDI Servers module, then click the UDDI server name to which you wish to add a business entity. The View UDDI Server Detail panel appears.

2.	Click the Add button to add a business entity to the list. The Manage Business panel appears.

3.	Enter the following information about the business:

Field	Description
Name	Name of the business.
Key	UUID key for the business.
Description	Description of the business.
Authorized Name	The name of the user that published the business entity.

4.

Add discovery URLs to this business entity by clicking the Add button in the Discovery URLs area. A discovery URL provides a link to additional information, either technical or descriptive, about your business. Enter the URL and the use type for the URL. UDDI defines two use types for discovery URLs: businessEntity and businessEntityEx. See the UDDI specification for more information about discovery URLs.

5.	Add contact information to this business entity by clicking the Add button in the Contacts area. The Edit Contacts Detail panel appears where you can add a contact name, description, phone, email, and address.

6.	Click Done to record the changes you have made.

Adding Services

You can add TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks web services that are deployed and running to your business entities. This allows you to publish the details of your web services to an external audience. You can only add Service resources or process definitions that contain a SOAP Event Source process starter to a business entity.

To add TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks web services to your business entity, perform the following procedure:

1.	Click the UDDI Servers module, then click the UDDI server name that contains your business entity.

2.	Click your business name in the list of businesses for the selected UDDI server.

3.	Click the Add button in the Services area to add a TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks web service. The Add Service panel appears.

4.	Click the Browse button to view a list of deployed and running applications that contain web services. A panel appears that allows you to select the desired Service resources or process definitions that contain SOAP Event Source process starters.

5.	Click Done once you have selected the desired web services. The web services are added to the Services area.

6.	Click each service name to bring up the View Business Service Detail panel.

7.	Add bindings to each web service by clicking the Add button in the Bindings area. The Edit Service Binding Detail panel appears.

8.	Enter the appropriate binding information:

Field	Description
Access Point	The URL where the service can be accessed.
Binding Key	The UUID binding key for the service. See the UDDI specification for more information.
Service Key	The UUID service key for the service. See the UDDI specification for more information.

9.	Click Done to dismiss the Edit Service Binding Detail panel and save your changes.

10.	Click Done to dismiss the View Business Service Detail panel and save your changes.

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