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Business Service Structure

Business services allow developers to encapsulate business logic in a central location, abstracting the logic from the data it may act upon. A business service is much like an object in an object-oriented programming language.

A service has properties and methods and maintains a state. Methods take arguments that can be passed into the object programmatically or, in the case of Siebel eAI, declaratively by way of workflows.

NOTE:  For more details on business service methods and method arguments, see Siebel Tools Online Help.


 Integration Platform Technologies: Siebel eBusiness Application Integration Volume II 
 Published: 18 July 2003