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Working with gateway services

How a gateway service resembles an inbound service  that maps to a service destination on which a target service (either an internal service or an externally-provided Web service)  is available: A client request is received by an endpoint listener, then passed through an inbound port to the gateway service;  the target service is either an internal service available directly at the destination or  an external service available at the destination through one or more outbound ports;  you can also apply JAX-RPC handlers and WS-Security bindings at the ports.

A gateway service is the Web interface for an underlying service (the target service) that is either provided internally (hosted so as to be directly available at a service destination), or provided externally (as an external Web service). The gateway service is made available at a different location to the target service, so you can replace or relocate the target service without changing the details for the associated gateway service. You can also have more than one target service (that is, more than one implementation of the same logical service) for each gateway service. For more information, see Target services and gateway services.

You can control and monitor access to your gateway services in the following ways:

You use the WebSphere Application Server administrative console to work with gateway services. Choose one of the following actions:

Related concepts
Target services and gateway services
Related reference
Adding a target service to a gateway service configuration through the command line
Removing a target service from a gateway service configuration through the command line
Related information
Gateway services settings
Target services settings

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