Service Types
ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks includes both web services and adapter services. Web services are accessed by SOAP activities. Adapter services are accessed by activities available in the TIBCO Designer ActiveEnterprise Adapter
palette that you can add to your business process.
Web Services
ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks supports Web Services Description Language, or WSDL. WSDL is an XML-formatted language used to describe a Web service's capabilities as collections of communication endpoints capable of exchanging messages.
You can use ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks both to set up a web services server or to set up a web services client. The activities you need are included in the SOAP palette.
Adapter Services
Adapter services allow your business process to publish data or subscribe to data used by the enterprise. A publication service sends data to the business process, a subscription service receives data from the business process.
Adapter services allow you to communicate with enterprise applications or interact with other incoming and outgoing data. They include:
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Technology adapters— Allow publication to and subscription from files and databases.
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Enterprise application adapters—Allow you to interact with enterprise applications such as Siebel, SAP R/3, and PeopleSoft.