Specifying Your Parameter File Options

The Parameter sheet is displayed when you have selected the Use Parameter File option button in the Extract Options sheet and you then click the Parameter sheet.

The Parameter sheet enables you to select the parameter file that specifies the classes, interfaces, and methods that are to be extracted.

A parameter file must already exist.

All classes, interfaces, or methods specified in an existing parameter file are extracted (which provides less granularity than a selective extract of entities saved to a parameter file, when you can tailor the entities you want to extract as a partial definition).

As the complete interface must be extracted when an interface method is required to be extracted, the extract process validates that methods specified in the parameter file are not defined as part of an interface.

A selective extract file includes the Web service exposure only if the Web service provider subclass of the JadeWebServiceProvider class is included in the parameter file. Although you do not have to perform a full extract of your schema, you do have to include the Web service class in the partial extract file.

Parameter options are enabled only when you extract the current schema; that is, you cannot specify these options for the extraction of multiple schemas.

To specify your parameter file options

  1. In the Parameter File Name text box, specify the name and location of your parameter file that contains the classes, interfaces, and methods that are to be extracted or excluded from the schema extraction.

    You must specify a value in this text box. An error is raised if you do not specify the name of an existing text file. (The file must be a text file.)

    If you are unsure of the name or location of your parameter file, click the Browse button. The common File dialog is then displayed, to enable you to select the appropriate file location and name.

  2. Check the Exclude Elements check box if you want to extract all of your schema except for the classes, interfaces, and methods specified in your parameter file.

  3. Click the OK button, to confirm your selections. Alternatively, click the Cancel button to abandon the extract.