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Services and service-related functions

Services provide functions for a business process, which itself is a sequence of services. Creating services separately from a business process means a service can be developed independently of a business process and that many types of business processes can reuse that service.

To bring a service into a business process, you use an import. To make a service available to business processes, you use an export.

There are various types of services and service-related functions:

• web services - Services that are offered over the Internet
• adapter-based services - Services that make enterprise data from large back end systems like DB2 and SAP accessible
• messaging services - Services that provide data from messaging systems like WebSphere MQ

• Enterprise JavaBeans - Services that are derived from Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs)
• registries - Manage services in organizations
• data handlers - Used for services that require unique and uncommon data formats
• mediation flows - Intervene dynamically between services to transform, route or augment data.

Authoring services in IBM Integration Designer

Related information:
Calling services
Access web services using web service bindings
Access external services with adapters
Access external services with messaging systems
Create a service gateway
Access Enterprise Java Bean (EJB) services
Work with data handlers, faults and registries
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) binding
Integrating business processes with Case Manager cases
Importing external services from registries
Building mediation flows