Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Reference > Sets
Gateway services [Collection]
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.
Service integration -> Buses -> bus_name -> [Additional Properties] Web service gateway instances -> instance_name -> Gateway Services .
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.
- We 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.
Buttons
New Create a new gateway service. Delete Delete the selected items.
Administrative console buttons
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