When a service has been successfully deployed to Oracle SOA Suite with active state, Retire appears allowing you to change the state of the deployed service from 'Active' to 'Retired'.
Note: This action also ensures that current running requests are finished while retiring the service.
Service with 'Retired' state means that the deployed service is no longer active for service invocation and will not accept new SOAP requests.
Please note that a service with 'Retire' state, the selected interaction pattern and authentication type information remains the same.
After retiring a deployed service, the Web Service region (or the SOAP Web Service tab for the interface with the support for both SOAP and REST services) has the following changes:
Web Service Status: 'Deployed' with 'Retired' state appears indicating that this deployed service will no longer accept new requests.
Activate: This action lets you change the retired service back to an active service again.
For information on how to activate a Web service, see Activating SOAP Web Services.
Undeploy: This action lets you undeploy the retired service from an Oracle SOA Suite managed server to the repository. See: Deploying and Undeploying SOAP Web Services.
Reset: This action lets you reset the retired service to its initial state - 'Not Generated'. See: Resetting SOAP Web Services.
To retire a 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 for the interface with the support for both SOAP and REST services), click Retire if needed to retire the active deployed service.