Business services in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne are objects that enable interoperability between JD Edwards EnterpriseOne and other Oracle or third-party applications and systems. Business services enable software applications that are written in various programming languages and running on various platforms to exchange information. They are based on widely used open standards like XML, SOAP, WSDL.
A web service is a standardized way of integrating web-based applications. In JD Edwards EnterpriseOne, published business services are exposed to consumers as web services. These web services enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne to expose native transactions to other applications and systems.
Published business services are exposed to consumers. Internal business services are created for internal use by JD Edwards EnterpriseOne published business services. They are made available to consumers as a call from a published business service. Business services that are exposed to consumers are exposed as web service operations.
Numerous Business Services were implemented to allow interoperability of the Financials modules with third party systems. They allow importing and/or exporting Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and General Ledger transactions, Address Book, Customer Master, Supplier Master, Business Unit Master, Chart of Accounts, Companies information and others.
The list of available Business Services and usage details can be found in the Oracle JD Edwards Technical Catalog searching for Business Interfaces and Business Services.
To find out the capabilities of specific Business Services see:
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16582_01/doc.91/e38040/additional_info.htm#EOAAA1431
More information can be found in:
Oracle JD Edwards Technical Catalog (Doc ID 1361438.1)
Or in the JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Applications Business Interfaces Implementation Guide
How To Test a Business Service deployed to a WebLogic Business Services Server using SOAPUI (Doc ID 1122313.1)