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Exports
An export is a published interface from a component or import that offers its service to the outside world, for example, as a web service.
Exports have interfaces that are the same as or a subset of the interfaces of the component or import that they are associated with so that the published service can be called. An export dragged from another module into an assembly diagram automatically creates an import. Exports that are shown under the module assembly in the Business Integration view can also be used to create imports in other modules.
Each export has an address at which it is deployed on the server. The export can be exposed at that address.
Imports and exports require binding information, which specifies the means of transporting the data from the modules. When you use the Generate Export action from the menu of a component, you need to select the binding so that the binding is generated when the export is created. An export binding describes the specific way a module's services are made available to clients.
If an export in a module assembly does not have any binding, when deployed, SCA binding is assumed.
For enterprise information systems (EIS), an export allows an event in the enterprise system, such as the creation of a business object in SAP, to drive an action. Unlike other exports, you cannot drag an export with an EIS binding to create an EIS import.
Related tasks:
Create exports
Generate SCA bindings