Exposing a service as REST Service

Oracle SOA 12c allows the feature of exposing your service as a REST service as well as calling a REST service directly via Rest adapter. Ealier version 11g was supporting call to REST web service using http binding however in SOA 12c they have directly introduced a REST adapter.

You can right click on the Services swinlane (both proxy and external) and create a REST web service.




You also have a REST adapter which you can drag and drop to configure the REST web service.



Once you create a REST service a WADL file is created which looks something like this