An outbound service provides access, through one or more outbound ports, to a Web service that is hosted externally. An outbound service can be used by any of your internal systems that can access the service integration bus on which it is hosted.
Requests and responses to an outbound service are sent across any transport binding (for example SOAP over HTTP, SOAP over JMS, EJB binding) that is available to both the target service and the service integration bus. Each available binding type is represented by an outbound port configured at a port destination. For more information, see Outbound ports and port destinations.
You use the WebSphere Application Server administrative console to work with outbound services. Choose one of the following actions: