Service builders

Let's take a look at the builders that enable the service-oriented architecture (SOA) implementation and communication between the provider and the consumer layers.

The following screenshot shows the list of available service builders:

There are basically four types of builders a WEF modeler would add to a Service Provider model in order to implement a service operation:

1. 1. Service Definition builder: The Service Definition builder is the builder that makes a model behave like a Service Provider model. This means that this builder adds the required support to expose the operations in this model via WSDL to other models. You need to add just one Service Definition per provider model.

2. 2. Integration builder: The integration builders are builders specialized in connecting directly to one of the sources representing the backend systems. Such builders include SQL Call builder, SAP builder, Domino builder, PeopleSoft builder, and so on. The Web Service Call builder would...