Service components are the building blocks that you use to construct a SOA composite application.

The following service components are available. There is a corresponding service engine of the same name for each service component. All service engines can interact in a single composite.

• BPEL processes provide process orchestration and storage of a synchronous or an asynchronous process. You design a business process that integrates a series of business activities and services into an end-to-end process flow.

• Business rules enable you to design a business decision based on rules.

• Human tasks provide workflow modeling that describes the tasks for users or groups to perform as part of an end-to-end business process flow.

• Mediators route events (messages) between different components.

• Spring enables you to integrate Java interfaces into SOA composite applications.

For more information about service components, see Adding Service Components.