Flow services using the Integration Server Administrator. When you create a flow service that accesses a database, you make selections from Integration Server Administrator pages to describe the function that you want the service to perform. The webMethods Integration Server generates the flow service for you based on your selections.

Java and C/C++ services using webMethods Integration Server or your own development environment. Integration Server provides built-in services that perform basic database operations, such as connecting to a database, selecting rows, inserting rows, and deleting rows. Your services can access these built-in services to perform database operations. Your services can also use other database APIs (for example, JDBC) to access databases.