Enabling web services through the service integration bus
Web services can use the service integration bus and the web services gateway to provide a single point of control, access, and validation of web service requests and allow control of web services that are available to different groups of web service users.
About this task
- Create an inbound service: Take an internally-hosted service that is available at a bus destination, and make it available as a web service.
- Create an outbound service: Take an externally-hosted web service, and make it available internally at a bus destination.
- Create a gateway service: 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.
Bus-enabled web services provide a choice of quality of service and message distribution options, along with intelligence in the form of mediations that allow for the rerouting of messages. The web services gateway is used to map web services for use within your organization and by external users, and to manage the relationships between externally-provided web services and those provided directly through a service integration bus (that is, the relationships between inbound and outbound services).
To enable web services through service integration technologies, complete the following steps:
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What to do next
For more information about specific aspects of bus-enabled web services, see the following topics: