Which object is used to pass data from the EBF to the EBS and then on to the ABCS that accesses a provider system?

Which object is used to pass data from the EBF to the EBS and then on to the ABCS that
accesses a provider system?

A.
CBP

B.
EBO

C.
EBM

D.
ABM

Explanation:
The Oracle Application Integration Architecture (AIA) methodology for designing and
implementing an EBF is contract first methodology. Hence, the contract must be defined and
created before the implementation of the EBF.
To define the contract:
1. Identify the EBF.
2. Identify the pattern for the EBF.
3. Identify the Enterprise Business Message (EBM) to be used for the requests and responses (if
any).
Note: Any application invoking the Enterprise Business Services (EBSs) has to generate the EBM
to pass the EBM as a payload to the EBS.
At the most basic level, EBMs (Enterprise Business Messages) are the messages that are
exchanged between two applications. The EBM represents the specific content of an EBO needed
for performing a specific activity.
Reference: Oracle Fusion Middleware Concepts and Technologies Guide for Oracle Application
Integration Architecture Foundation Pack:
Designing and Constructing Enterprise Business Flows
Note #1: The Enterprise Business Flow (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 #2: EBSs ( Enterprise Business Services) 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.