Special Folders

During SOA project creation you have the option to create special folders to contain SOA asset types.

The following SOA asset types are supported:

  • Service Descriptors - Service descriptors such as WSDL and schema files
  • Composites - Composite files
  • Mediation Flows - Mediation flows
  • Resource Templates - Resource template, substitution variable, and policy set files
  • Deployment Artifacts - Distributed application specification and archive, distribution, custom feature, and command-line interface build and property files

Special folders created in an SOA project have the following features:

  • Asset-specific behavior in the Project Explorer. For example, in the Service Descriptors folder you can expand a WSDL file to view its constituent operations and messages.
  • When you right-click a special folder and select New, the appropriate asset type will be available in the context menu.