After a service has been deployed with 'Retired' state, it is not available to participate in any Web service activities at run time. To bring it back to work and to be invoked by Web service clients, you must change the 'Retired' state to 'Active'. This can be achieved by clicking Activate to take the retired service back to an active state again.
Please note that activating a service will not change its service definition. This means that the selected interaction pattern and authentication type information remains the same as it was before.
After activating a service, the following fields are changed in the Web Service region (or the SOAP Web Service tab for the interface with the support for both SOAP and REST services):
Web Service Status: This field is changed from 'Deployed' with 'Retired' state back to 'Deployed' with 'Active' state. This indicates that the deployed service becomes available again and is ready to be invoked and accept new requests.
Retire: This action lets you retire the activated service again. See: Retiring SOAP Web Services.
Undeploy: This action lets you undeploy the active service from an Oracle SOA Suite managed server to the repository. See: Deploying and Undeploying SOAP Web Services.
Reset: This action cleans up the service artifact and takes it back to its initial state - 'Not Generated'. See: Resetting SOAP Web Services.
To activate a retired Web service:
Log in to Oracle E-Business Suite as a user who has the Integration Administrator role. Select the Integrated SOA Gateway responsibility and the Integration Repository link.
Click Search to open the main Search page.
Enter appropriate search information such as product family, product, interface type, or business entity.
Click Show More Search Options and select 'Deployed' for the Web Service Status field.
Locate the interface definition that match your search criteria from the result table.
Click the interface definition name link to open the interface details page.
In the Web Service region (or the SOAP Web Service tab), click Activate if available to activate the retired service.