Configuring web services for a service integration bus

Take an internally-hosted service that is available at a bus destination, and make it available as a web service; Take an externally-hosted web service, and make it available internally at a bus destination; Use the web services gateway to map an existing service - either an inbound or an outbound service - to a new Web service that appears to be provided by the gateway.

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In figure 1, a client request is received by an endpoint listener then passed through an inbound port to an inbound service destination. An outbound service destination passes a request through an outbound port to an external service.

In figure 2, a client request is received by an endpoint listener, then passed through an inbound port to an inbound service destination. An outbound service destination passes a request through an outbound port to an external service, and a gateway service resembles an inbound service and maps to an outbound service.

Figure 1. Inbound, outbound and gateway services This figure is described in the surrounding text.

Through service integration bus-enabled web services you can achieve the following goals:

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