JBI Components

A JBI component is either a Service Engine or a Binding Component. Service Engines are components that provide local services (that is, services within the JBI environment) and consume local or remote services. Binding Components are proxies for consumers or providers that are outside the JBI environment. Binding components typically are based on a standard communications protocol, such as FTP, JMS, or SMTP, or a call to an external service, such as SAP or WebSphere MQ.

From the Admin Console, you can do the following operations on JBI components: