Process Component

Process components are the building blocks of service-enabled solutions. A process component is a modular, context-independent, reusable pieces of software that exposes its functions as services. A process component contains at least one business object and is unique within a deployment unit. Process components are designed to represent a technical grouping of semantically-related business objects. Semantically, process components interact with other process components using enterprise services.

For example, the process component Purchase Order Processing handles purchase requests from a purchaser to an external supplier.