Administering service applications and service modules
Use the administrative tools to view and manage service applications and their associated service modules.
Before you begin
About this task
Service modules are the basic
units of deployment and can contain components, libraries, and staging
modules used by the associated service application. Service modules
have exports and, optionally, imports to define the relationships
between modules and service requesters and providers. IBM Business
Automation Workflow supports
modules for business services and mediation modules. Both modules
and mediation modules are types of SCA modules. A mediation module
allows communication between applications by transforming the service
invocation to a format understood by the target, passing the request
to the target, and returning the result to the originator. A module
for a business service implements the logic of a business process.
However, a module can also include the same mediation logic that can
be packaged in a mediation module.
Important: Some SCA
modules are associated with a process application; they provide the
service integration functionality for that process application. If
an SCA module is associated with a process application, do not use
the administrative console to manage its state. Instead, use the Process
Admin Console. The state of any SCA module in a process application
is managed as part of the overall process application state within
the Process Admin Console.