In which two ways is an EBF similar to an EBS?
A.
They operate only on EBMs.
B.
They are external application-independent.
C.
They are developed at the same time in the life cycle.
D.
Both are modeled to implement only a single operation.
Explanation:
Note on EBF (Enterprise Business Flow): The EBF is used for implementing a
business activity or a task that involves leveraging capabilities available in multiple applications.
The EBF is about stringing together a set of capabilities available in applications to implement a
coarse-grained business activity or task and composing a new service leveraging existing
capabilities.The EBF involves only system-to-system or service-to-service interaction. The EBF
has no activity that needs human intervention. In a canonical integration, the EBF is an
implementation of an Enterprise Business Service (EBS) operation and calls other EBSs. It never
calls an Application Business Connector Service (ABCS) or the applications directly. In other
integration styles, the caller invoking the EBF can be either an application or any other service.
Note on EBS:EBSs are the foundation blocks in Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA).
An EBS represents the application or implementation-independent Web service definition for
performing a business task, and the architecture facilitates distributed processing using EBS.
Since an EBS is self-contained, it can be used independently of any other services. In addition, it
can be used within another EBS.You must construct an EBS when the business process integration is between multiple source
applications and target applications using the canonical model.
The purpose of the EBS is to:
* Provide the mediation between the requesting services and providing services.
* Provide different operations invoked from a requester Application Business Connector Service
(ABCS), an EBS, or an Enterprise Business Flow (EBF).
* Route an operation to a suitable EBS, EBF, or provider ABCS based on the evaluation of the
various routing rules for an operation.
Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Concepts and Technologies Guide for Oracle Application
Integration Architecture Foundation Pack,Introduction to Enterprise Business Flows