Business Hosts
A production includes a number of business hosts that communicate with each other (and with external systems). A business host is responsible for some category of work.
There are three distinct types of business host. In order to monitor a production, it is not necessary to know the details of why a given business host was implemented as a certain type. However, it is useful to be aware of the types:
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A business service receives input from outside the production, sometimes by means of an inbound adapter.
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A business process is responsible for communication and logic that is entirely within the production.
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A business operation usually sends output from the production, sometimes by means of an outbound adapter.
Business operations can also be used for communication and logic within a given production.
