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Web Services Reference for Oracle Billing Insight > Overview of Web Services > About Oracle Billing Insight Web ServicesOracle Billing Insight Web services provide a programmatic interface over the Web that developers and system integrators can use to build applications to integrate with Oracle Billing Insight applications. A Web service is a discrete piece of business logic, accessible through Internet protocols, that allows businesses to communicate with each other and with other clients, without detailed knowledge of each other's IT systems. Figure 1 shows how Web services interact with a user and the Oracle Billing Insight database. The user communicates with Oracle Billing Insight over the Internet using HTTP and HTTPS requests. Oracle Billing Insight Web services use the Java API for RESTful Web services (JAX-RS) Specification.JAX-RS is a Java programming language API that provides support for creating Web services according to the Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style. The Web services APIs allow you to build programs to integrate with Oracle Billing Insight. Some common examples of client integrations include the following:
Oracle Billing Insight provides a separate EAR file with Web-services functionality, which you deploy on a separate application server. |
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