POJO Service Engine Overview

The POJO Service Engine allows you to build business integration applications based on JBI standards and using Plain Old Java Objects (POJO). The POJO Service Engine automates much of the annotation and generates the code framework in which you can define your applications. The service engine simplifies the process by defining very few annotation and API classes. It provides flexibility by use of method signatures and by handling synchronous and asynchronous messages in a message-oriented way.

The POJO Service Engine supports a message-oriented paradigm rather than service-oriented. WSDL documents can be used but are not required. The service engine allows you to define both service providers and consumers with or without bindings (WSDL documents). You can also call the POJO providers you create from a BPEL process, and you can call a BPEL process from a POJO service consumer.

Unlike the Java EE Service Engine, the POJO Service Engine does not require a web or EJB container. The message data structure does not need to be exposed in a service description language such as WSDL, although a WSDL document can be used if that is preferred. The POJO Service Engine can access JBI normalized message objects and message exchange objects directly, which supports RESTful services, provides options for streaming and handling non-XML data, and avoids unnecessary unmarshaling of the incoming messages to Java objects.