IBM BPM, V8.0.1, All platforms > Authoring services in Integration Designer > Services and service-related functions > Building mediation flows > Emitting common base events

The Common Event Infrastructure and Common Base Events

The Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) is used to provide basic management services for events. The format of those events is defined by the Common Base Event specification

The Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) is used to provide basic event management services, such as event generation, transmission, persistence, and consumption.

Although CEI provides an infrastructure for event management, it does not define the format of events. This is defined by the Common Base Event specification, which provides a standard XML-based format for business events, system events, and performance information.

Common base events are emitted in a mediation flow using an Event Emitter primitive. You can define the part of the message that should be contained in the Extended Data Elements of the common base event.

Emitting common base events