Virtual Service Processing Steps
The processing steps associated with a virtual service determine how the virtual service handles the requests it receives from consumer applications. All virtual services have four processing steps:
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Entry Protocol step
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Request Processing step
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Routing step
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Response Processing step
You configure these steps to specify how Mediator is to act upon the requests it receives for this virtual service.