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Configure web services for a service integration bus

Take an internally-hosted service available at a bus destination, and make it available as a web service; Take an externally-hosted web service, and make it available internally at a bus destination; 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.

In figure 1, a client request is received by an endpoint listener then passed through an inbound port to an inbound service destination. An outbound service destination passes a request through an outbound port to an external service.

In figure 2, a client request is received by an endpoint listener, then passed through an inbound port to an inbound service destination. An outbound service destination passes a request through an outbound port to an external service, and a gateway service resembles an inbound service and maps to an outbound service.

Figure 1. Inbound, outbound and gateway services

Through service integration bus-enabled web services we can achieve the following goals:


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