Unwired Orchestrator treats each of the applications, processes, or other systems from which your business process gets information or to which your business process sends information as an endpoint. Endpoints are a key part of a business process because they define the external systems with which a service operation used in the business process can interact. You must configure a connection for each endpoint before the endpoint can be accessed by the business process.
Endpoint connections are configured to provide an interaction between the business process and the endpoint at runtime. Configuring an endpoint connection identifies the specific external system that will be used by a business process. The endpoint connection is the physical connection to underlying databases, transports, and sessions, enabling bi-directional communications to and from those systems. For that reason, the underlying systems must exist and be available when endpoint connections are configured. Configuring endpoint connections for Web services is not the same because the business process does not interact with the UDDI registry at runtime.
In Unwired Orchestrator, endpoints are classified according to their underlying technology. For example, database endpoints are distinct from messaging endpoints, but all messaging endpoints such as WebSphere MQ and JMS are similar. This classification of endpoints is used in the Endpoint Manager.
Working with Endpoint Connections
Messaging Connection Endpoints
Engine Cluster Properties Endpoints
Web Service Connection Endpoints