Adobe Document Service Configuration and Troubleshooting Guide
Exit the configuration tool. If we have made any new changes in the configuration tool then AS JAVA needs
to be restarted.
Configuring Web Service
Adobe Document Services publish their functions to the PDF object implementations through a Web Service
interface. This interface is not accessible directly and ADS is accessible using either
¾ The PDF object, or
¾ Web Dynpro and Forms Processing, which in turn use the PDF object at runtime.
Access to the Adobe document can be restricted by using credentials. This option provides the usage rights
to the document thus providing security to the confidential documents from unauthorized access. Again by
configuring the security for web services ensures security for documents and credentials.
There are two security configuration options for web services connection and configure the web service
connection appropriate to that model.
Basic Authentication – supports all functions including assigning usage rights, but excluding digital
signatures. When we use this model, we normally do not need to configure the connection settings, because
as of SAP NetWeaver 7.0, these are the default settings in an ABAP + Java system. We should check the
configuration settings to verify that they are correct for our system. For example, if we changed the client of
the ABAP system, we need to check the settings for the client information. This document describes how to
configure ADS with basic authentication. If the ADS configuration is with same ABAP+JAVA engine, all we
need to do is to check the settings to verify that they were correct for our system. If we change the ABAP
client then we need to certain configurations.
SSL –
supports all functions including digital signatures. In this document we have not covered the
configuration of ADS with SSL connection to web service.
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