Connect a database, or a WebSphere® MQ application, to IBM® Integration Bus by using discovery.
If you are not familiar with message flow concepts, message model concepts, and common tasks to manage message flow resources, see Developing message flows and Constructing message models.
In a heterogeneous environment, each provider has a different syntax and format for describing their service. IBM Integration Bus needs a description of these interfaces to be able to consume, provide, govern, or catalog the service. Discovery in IBM Integration Bus provides you with a common experience for describing service interfaces.
In IBM Integration Bus, a discovered service is a representation of the external application with which your message flow interacts. The interface of a discovered service is defined through WSDL.
You can use discovery to connect the following client applications:
The discovered service can be used internally within a message flow, and can be exposed to consumers through an integration service. For more information, see Integration services.