The business layer incorporates the logic to implement a business process which interacts with other distributed component services to provide transactions for business "state" information. This business layer incorporates the application business logic. In an iWay Service Manager environment, business logic consists of one or more services acting on an input document. Services can be arranged, such that the output of one service is passed to the next service, or multiple services can be executed in parallel.

Services are written in standard Java language and can make use of any available Java libraries or services. iWay Software supplies several predefined services that you can use as part of your business logic. Alternatively, you can code your own services to use as part of the business flow. For additional information, see the iWay Service Manager Programmer's Guide.

This section describes how to configure services and provides a reference for all predefined services that are provided with iWay Service Manager. Once a service is configured, you can add it to a process so that it can be bound to a channel as a route. Information on creating a process is also provided.