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Business Services

Business services execute predefined or custom actions in a workflow process. Examples of business services include the FINS IAA-XML Transaction Manager, the Siebel EAI Adapter, the FINS IAA-XML Converter, and so on. These business services act on property sets passed to them. They perform business logic operations such as interfacing with database, interfacing to IAA-XML based systems, or transforming one integration object into another. Siebel Systems, Inc., provides many business services but you can create your own. Although you can use business services to perform many different functions, they all have a standard interface. Business services have object-like qualities, such as methods, method arguments, and user properties. These elements define how a business service can be used. Business services are defined in Siebel Tools. This guide describes those business services used to interface to IAA-XML based systems.

NOTE:  For more information on business services in general, see Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume II.


 Siebel Financial Services Connector for IAA-XML Guide  
 Published: 18 April 2003