Chapter 8. Java Business Integration Terms

A specification for a standards-based, vendor-neutral architecture, based on SOA principles, for the integration of disparate applications, service providers, and service consumers. JBI-compliant components are expected to plug in and interoperate with other JBI-compliant components. This frees vendors to concentrate on supplying components that implement their particular area of expertise without worrying about implementing the other necessary portions of a complete solution. JBI also frees end-users to pick and choose among many JBI-compliant components to assemble a SOA network sized to their needs, without locking in to one vendor's approach. The JBI specification was developed by the Java Community Process. Compare with SCA.

A JBI component that provides connectivity to services external to the JBI environment.

Part of the JBI architecture responsible for receiving message exchanges from JBI components and routing them to the appropriate component for processing.

A collection of service units.

See also: service unit

A JBI component that provides business logic and transformation services and also consumes such services.

Artifacts deployed to a JBI component. A service unit configures the component to provide a piece of functionality such as expose an endpoint or route messages.