Section

Description

Providing, Discovering, and Consuming Services

This section describes the outside-in development of Web services based on service interfaces in the Enterprise Services Repository. The section concentrates on service development for point-to-point communication. It references from procedures that describe the development and configuration steps for the most important standard cases to the detailed documentation for the individual tools and programming models.

Integrating Applications

This section describes the message-based implementation of A2A and B2B processes and concentrates on application integration using the Integration Server. You implement enhanced communication with Web services in the same way that you implement communication using the Integration Server, namely by using other technologies at the sender and at the receiver. Consequently, this aspect of service development is described here and not in the last section.

Managing Business Processes

This section describes how you define, configure, and monitor processes. The processes can be embedded in SAP applications or cross-system processes.

To monitor milestones, define a monitoring process that can monitor events from different applications. The section describes how to subscribe to events from SAP or non-SAP systems, and how you use the monitoring process to filter events and process them further.