Service application features of the administrative interfaces

WebSphere Process Server allows you to view and change aspects of service applications using the administrative console.

Service applications provide services, and have an associated Service Component Architecture (SCA) module. The type of SCA modules that are supported by enterprise service bus are mediation modules.

Viewable SCA module details

After you have deployed an EAR (Enterprise ARchive) file containing an Service Component Architecture (SCA) module, you can view SCA module details. You can list all your SCA modules, and their associated applications, and you can view details about a particular SCA module.

The SCA module details you can view include some of the following.
  • SCA module name.
  • Associated application.
  • SCA module imports.
    • Interfaces.
    • Bindings.
  • SCA module exports.
    • Interfaces.
    • Bindings.
  • SCA module properties.

Modifiable SCA module details

After you have deployed an EAR file containing an SCA module you can change the following SCA module details using the administrative console, without having to redeploy the EAR file.
  • Import bindings of type SCA and Web service.
    • Changing import bindings lets you change service interactions.
    • SCA bindings connect SCA modules to other SCA modules.
      • One SCA module can interact with a second SCA module, and be changed to interact with a third SCA module.
    • Web service bindings connect SCA modules to external services using SOAP.
  • Import bindings of type Web service (WS).
    • Changing import bindings lets you change service interactions.
    • WS import bindings allow SCA modules to access web services. A WS import binding calls a service located at a specified endpoint. You can change the end point such that the binding calls the service at an alternative end point, or even an entirely different service with compatible interfaces.
  • Mediation module properties.
    • Mediation module properties belong to the mediation primitives with which they are associated. However, the WebSphere Process Server administrative console displays some of them as Additional Properties of an SCA module. The integration developer must flag a mediation primitive property as Promoted in order for it to be visible from WebSphere Process Server.
    • Changing mediation module properties lets you change the behavior of your mediations. The mediation changes that you can make depend upon the properties that have been promoted.
Note: An export with no binding specified is interpreted by the runtime as an export with an SCA binding.
Figure 1. Example showing one mediation module interacting with another mediation module. MediationModule1 connects to MediationModule2
MediationModule1 connects to MediationModule2
Figure 2. Example showing one mediation module interacting with another mediation module. MediationModule1 connects to MediationModule3
MediationModule1 connects to MediationModule3

Last updated: Wed 06 Dec 2006 07:08:08

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