A Service Assembly is a collection of Service Units that provision target components that together provide or consume specific services for an application. Service Assemblies are typically created in a development tools environment, such as that provided by the NetBeans Integrated Development EnvironmentTM (NetBeans IDE).
From the Admin Console, you can do the following:
View all the Service Assemblies, with support for sorting and for filtering by lifecycle state. For steps to do this, see To View Service Assemblies.
Deploy a Service Assembly. For steps on how to deploy a Service Assembly, see the section To Deploy a Service Assembly.
Undeploy a Service Assembly. For steps to undeploy a Service Assembly, see To Undeploy Service Assemblies.
Manage the lifecycle of a Service Assembly. For information on the steps to manage the lifecycle of a Service Assembly, see To Manage the Lifecycle States of a Service Assembly.
View the general properties of a Service Assembly or a Service Unit. For steps to view the general properties of a Service Assembly, see Viewing General Properties of a Service Assembly
View the general properties of a Service Unit. For steps to view the general properties of a Service Unit, see To View the General Properties of a Service Unit
View the descriptor for a Service Assembly. For steps to display the descriptor, see the section Viewing JBI Descriptors