The dynamic selection of the web service's endpoint

In this recipe, we will explore how to dynamically call web services from the BPEL process. Such an approach can be useful in an early stage of the SOA adoption or when we don't have the middleware infrastructure set up yet and we have, for example, a set of redundant web services. In such a scenario, we need to provide ourselves with the functionality for the BPEL process to dynamically select the web service's endpoint.

Getting ready

We start this recipe by deploying the same web service to multiple instances of the servers. We decided to use the hotel reservation service from the Implementing web services with Axis2 recipe. We deployed the web service to the three instances of the server. The interface of web service remains the same; however, the address on which the web services reside do change as follows:

Server 1: <soap:address location = "http://192.168.1.101:7777/axis2/services/BookHotelService/"/>
Server 2: <soap:address...