Rediscovery of a Web service should be possible if the location of the Web service changed (e.g., its URL or file location)

There has been a change at VKB that now requires each service being called through an NGINX reverse proxy. That change implied that the location changed from where WSDLs for Web Services are obtained: BAW should now rediscover all services via the reverse proxy instead of directly from their server.

VKB needs the rediscover capability for all their services continue working. However, for re-discovery BAW today relies on the location of the WSDL to identify that a service is to be rediscovered, not to be discovered as a new service.

That is, VKB’s expectation is that through rediscovery, the endpoint of the service inside the WSDL file should be rewritten for correctly pointing to the NGINX reverse proxy.

In case TS016819532, VKB was told that this operation is not considered a rediscovery of the same service, but the discovery of a new one and that this works as designed. The reason is even if you are referring to the same WSDL file, the server and the endpoints are different.

However, once you discover a service anew, all the artifacts are re-created. And when there is a conflict in name an “_number” (_1, _2, etc.) is added at the end of the name. Also, a new server definition is added.

For VKB this is a big problem because a new service name would be needed and all mappings in the process app would need to be re-applied. VKB had already trouble with this in the past. We are talking about nearly 100 WSDLs which will have a different URL.

These changes can have a huge impact on the function of the process applications, and all process applications and their services need to be tested again.

This is why VKB suggests that the change of the endpoint should be considered as a rediscovery of the same service in BAW and not as a new one.

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