WebSphere WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus, Version 6.0.1 Operating Systems: AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Solaris, Windows

Service application features of the administrative interfaces

WebSphere ESB allows you to view and change aspects of service applications using the administrative console.

Service applications provide services, and have an associated Service Component Architecture (SCA) module. The type of SCA modules that are supported by WebSphere ESB are mediation modules.

Viewable SCA module details

After you have deployed an EAR (Enterprise ARchive) file containing an Service Component Architecture (SCA) module, you can view SCA module details. You can list all your SCA modules, and their associated applications, and you can view details about a particular SCA module.

The SCA module details you can view include some of the following.
  • SCA module name.
  • Associated application.
  • SCA module imports.
    • Interfaces.
    • Bindings.
  • SCA module exports.
    • Interfaces.
    • Bindings.

Modifiable SCA module details

After you have deployed an EAR file containing an SCA module you can change the following SCA module details using the administrative console.
  • Import bindings of type SCA.
    • Changing import bindings lets you change service interactions.
    • SCA bindings connect SCA modules to other SCA modules.
      • One SCA module can interact with a second SCA module, and be changed to interact with a third SCA module.
SCA modules can have different types of bindings. WebSphere ESB supports many different types of SCA module bindings. For example, web service bindings and SCA bindings. However, you can only change SCA import bindings from WebSphere ESB.
Note: An export with no binding specified is interpreted by the runtime as an export with an SCA binding.
Figure 1. Example showing one mediation module interacting with another mediation module. MediationModule1 connects to MediationModule2
MediationModule1 connects to MediationModule2
Figure 2. Example showing one mediation module interacting with another mediation module. MediationModule1 connects to MediationModule3
MediationModule1 connects to MediationModule3

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