Understanding JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Business Services

Business services are objects that enable interoperability between JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and other Oracle applications or third-party applications and systems. Business services enable software applications that are written in various programming languages and running on various platforms to exchange information.

A web service is a standardized way of integrating web-based applications. In JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, published business services are exposed to consumers as web services. These web services enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to expose native transactions to other applications and systems.

Note: In the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system, published business services are exposed as web services. Therefore, in many cases, you will see the terms business service and web service used interchangeably.