An Enterprise Business Service (EBS) is a first-class OBJECT exposed on the enterprise service bus. An EBS is coarse-grained and performs a specific business activity or task and is either an Activity Service or Data Service.

For example, the activity it performs could be one of the FOLLOWING:

Creating an account in a BILLING system.

Checking for the presence of an account in a billing system.

Getting the balance details for an account from a billing system.

An EBS is agnostic to a specific back-end implementation. Back-end implementations that support EBS interface STANDARDS can be considered service providers. EBSs expose coarse-grained, message-driven interfaces for EXCHANGING data between applications, both synchronously and asynchronously.

The salient features of EBSs include:

Reuse of available assets in the Oracle portfolio.

Substitution of a service provider with another without any impact to the client.

Content-based selection of the service provider.

An Enterprise Business Service (EBS) is a first-class object exposed on the enterprise service bus. An EBS is coarse-grained and performs a specific business activity or task and is either an Activity Service or Data Service.

For example, the activity it performs could be one of the following:

Creating an account in a billing system.

Checking for the presence of an account in a billing system.

Getting the balance details for an account from a billing system.

An EBS is agnostic to a specific back-end implementation. Back-end implementations that support EBS interface standards can be considered service providers. EBSs expose coarse-grained, message-driven interfaces for exchanging data between applications, both synchronously and asynchronously.

The salient features of EBSs include:

Reuse of available assets in the Oracle portfolio.

Substitution of a service provider with another without any impact to the client.

Content-based selection of the service provider.