Business Services

This documentation explains how to create and maintain business services with the optional Service Development component of NaturalONE. It is organized under the following headings:

Release Notes Information on new features and enhancements.
Introduction About the Natural Business Services (NBS) product on the server and its client. Prerequisites on the NBS server.
Getting Started About the demo application which can be downloaded from the NBS server. An overview on how to download and create business services. Folder structure in the workspace, and the available editors.
Creating New Business Services How to generate a business services together with its supporting resources (domains and steplib chain files). Format of the file name for a business service. Information on the business service resources that need to be uploaded.
Creating New Domains and Steplib Chain Files How to create domains and steplib chain files separately.
Using the Editors How to use the business service editor, the domain editor, and the steplib editor.
Working With Business Service Resources on the Server How to download business service resources from an NBS server. How to copy, paste, move and delete business service resources directly on a server.
Generating Java Clients and Web Services How to generate Java clients and web services for the business services using a wizard.
Defining Security for a Domain How to view and change the security settings for the domains that are available locally and on the server.
Adding Business Service Definitions to CentraSite How to register business services and their corresponding metadata with CentraSite.
Setting the Preferences for Business Services Information on the preferences that can be set for the business services.

Notes:

  1. The Service Development component provides code generators that can be used to generate Natural subprograms for your business services. This is explained in the Code Generation documentation, in the section Using the Code Generation Component.
  2. To test your business services and associated Natural subprograms, you have to use the Application Testing component of NaturalONE. This is explained in the Application Testing documentation.
  3. The Service Development component is always installed together with the Application Testing component of NaturalONE and with EntireX. The most up-to-date EntireX documentation is always available at http://documentation.softwareag.com/webmethods/entirex.htm (Empower login required).
  4. The Service Development component is always installed together with the Natural Construct component of NaturalONE which provides access to Natural Construct on the server. You can use the Natural Construct component to generate code using Construct models. This is explained in the Code Generation documentation, in the section Using Natural Construct.