WSO2 Admin Services.

WSO2 products are internally manage by using SOAP Web services known as Admin Services. WSO2 products come with a management console UI, which communicates with these admin services to facilitate administration capabilities through the UI.

A service in WSO2 products is defined by the following components:

• Service component: provides the actual service
• UI component: provides the Web user interface to the service
• Service stub: provides the interface to invoke the service generated from the service WSDL

There can be instances where you want to call back-end Web services directly. For example, in test automation, to minimize the overhead of having to change automation scripts whenever a UI change happens, developers prefer to call the underlying services in scripts. 

Discovering WSO2 Admin Services:

By default, the WSDLs of admin services are hidden from consumers. So we are going to discover them using OSGI console. Please follow below steps: 

1. Set the <HideAdminServiceWSDLs> element to false in <PRODUCT_HOME>/repository/conf/carbon.xml file.

2. Go to <PRODUCT_HOME>/bin/  folder and start the WSO2 product as follows,

• In Linux environment:  sh wso2server.sh -DosgiConsole
• In Windows environment:  wso2server.bat -DosgiConsole

3. When the server is started, hit the enter/return key several times to get the OSGI shell in the console.
4. In the OSGI shell, type: listAdminServices
5. The list of admin services of your product are listed as follows:

6. To see the WSDL of any admin service, select the admin service's URL and paste it in your browser with ?wsdl at the end. For example: https://SL-PRABODP:8243/services/InboundAdmin?wsdl Note : Replace SL-PRABODP with your local IP or localhost. Then you can see it as below And also you can create a soap project in SoapUI as well Then you can see as below in soapUI Then you can check all available functionalities using this soapUI