A gateway service provides the configuration of the web service enablement of a service destination, along with the information that maps to one or more target destinations.
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When
you create a gateway service, you map an existing destination that
hosts a target service (either an internal service or an external
web service) to a new web service that seems to be provided by the
gateway. This approach provides the following benefits:
- The
gateway service is made available at a different web address
to the target service, so you can replace or relocate the target service
without changing the details for the associated gateway service.
- You can have more than one target service (that is, more than
one implementation of the same logical service) for each gateway service.
- The gateway service can be made available on a different service
integration bus to the target service.
- The gateway provides
a common interface to the services in each
set. Your gateway service users need not know where each underlying
service is located, or whether the underlying service is being provided
internally or sourced externally, or whether there are multiple target
services available for a single gateway service.
- Gateway service name
- The name of the gateway service.
- Gateway request destination name
- The name of the service destination to be used to process request messages for this gateway service.
- Description
- An optional description of the gateway service.