Table 3 summarizes the services introduced in this section.
An adapter Publication Service recognizes when business events happen in a vendor application, and asynchronously sends out the event data in realtime to interested systems in the TIBCO environment.
An adapter subscription service asynchronously performs an action, such as updating business objects or invoking native APIs, on a vendor application. The adapter service listens to external business events, which trigger the appropriate action.
An adapter Request-Response Invocation Service is similar to the Request-Response Service, except that the roles are reversed. The vendor application is now the requester or initiator of the service, instead of the provider of the service. The adapter service acts as a proxy, giving the vendor application the ability to invoke synchronously functionality on an external system.