A service is a Process Commander programmatic component that defines and implements an interface between an external application acting as a client and a Process Commander system acting as a server.

An external system may use any of several technical frameworks to call a Process Commander application, become a requestor of an appropriate type, send a request, execute an activity (which may call other activities, update data, and start other processing), and receive the results in a response.

A service is implemented through an instance of one of the rule types below, plus appropriate calling code in the external client system:

• Service BPEL (Rule-Service-BPEL rule type)
• Service COM (Rule-Service-COM rule type)
• Service dotNet (Rule-Service-dotNet rule type)
• Service EJB (Rule-Service-EJB rule type)
• Service Email (Rule-Service-Email rule type)
• Service File (Rule-Service-File rule type)
• Service HTTP (Rule-Service-HTTP rule type)
• Service Java (Rule-Service-Java rule type)
• Service Portlet (Rule-Service-Portlet rule type)
• Service JMS (Rule-Service-JMS rule type)
• Service JSR94 (Rule-Service-JSR94 rule type)
• Service MQ (Rule-Service-MQ rule type class)
• Service SOAP (Rule-Service-SOAP rule type)

Services using the SOAP protocol to transmit XML-formatted messages are known as Web services. Multiple service rules supporting a single interface are known as a package, defined through the Service Package form. In many situations, the service instructs Process Commander to call a single activity. This is known as the service activity.

Service rule types belong to the Integration-Services category.

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