Oracle Service Bus provides intelligent message brokering between BUSINESS services (such as enterprise services and databases) and service clients (such as presentation applications or other business services) through proxy services that you can configure using Oracle Service Bus development and run-time tooling. Proxy services are Oracle Service Bus DEFINITIONS of intermediary Web services that Oracle Service Bus implements locally on Oracle WebLogic Server. With Oracle Service Bus message brokering, service clients exchange messages with an intermediary proxy service rather than working directly with a business service.

Oracle Service Bus lets you implement proxy services independently and configure them dynamically, as driven by your business needs, without requiring costly infrastructure development and re-deployment efforts. The configuration functions are separated from the management functions in Oracle Service Bus.

A proxy service can route messages to multiple business services; you can choose to configure a proxy service with an interface that is independent of the business services with which the proxy service communicates. In such cases, you can configure a proxy service message flow definition to route a message to the appropriate business service and map the message DATA into the format required by the business service interface.

Business services are Oracle Service Bus definitions of the enterprise services that exchange messages during business PROCESSES. A business service and its interface can be defined and configured using the Oracle Service Bus design-time tooling. To configure a business service, you must specify its interface, the type of transport it uses, its security requirements, and other characteristics.

A business service definition is SIMILAR to that of a proxy service, but it does not have pipelines (a message flow).

Oracle Service Bus provides intelligent message brokering between business services (such as enterprise services and databases) and service clients (such as presentation applications or other business services) through proxy services that you can configure using Oracle Service Bus development and run-time tooling. Proxy services are Oracle Service Bus definitions of intermediary Web services that Oracle Service Bus implements locally on Oracle WebLogic Server. With Oracle Service Bus message brokering, service clients exchange messages with an intermediary proxy service rather than working directly with a business service.

Oracle Service Bus lets you implement proxy services independently and configure them dynamically, as driven by your business needs, without requiring costly infrastructure development and re-deployment efforts. The configuration functions are separated from the management functions in Oracle Service Bus.

A proxy service can route messages to multiple business services; you can choose to configure a proxy service with an interface that is independent of the business services with which the proxy service communicates. In such cases, you can configure a proxy service message flow definition to route a message to the appropriate business service and map the message data into the format required by the business service interface.

Business services are Oracle Service Bus definitions of the enterprise services that exchange messages during business processes. A business service and its interface can be defined and configured using the Oracle Service Bus design-time tooling. To configure a business service, you must specify its interface, the type of transport it uses, its security requirements, and other characteristics.

A business service definition is similar to that of a proxy service, but it does not have pipelines (a message flow).