A service connector interacts with services in

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, within a firewall, or anywhere in the cloud, if the service has an exposed API. In this tutorial, you do not create a service connector from scratch. Instead, you import a Swagger JSON file to create a service connector. You also import a complete service connector.

A connection defines the configuration to connect to a service connector. The service connector may be a built in connector like JDBC or one that you create, like the Calculator service connector in this tutorial. To use the service connector in a process, you must first create a connection and then add the connection to the process.

A process is a set of instructions that automate a business requirement. Use process steps to configure a process to run tasks in sequence, obtain information using complex XQuery, take decisions based on some criteria, and much more.

A process that is called from within another process.

Fault handling refers to configuring the process to account for an exception or an unanticipated condition that occurs during the process flow. With fault handling, a predictable result always occurs.

Application Integration

is an

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service that you can use to perform API-based integration, event processing, and service and process orchestration.

Application Integration Console

is an

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service that you can use to perform detailed monitoring and debugging for invoked process instances.

API Manager is a cloud-based service that an organization uses to manage the APIs for enterprise services and processes built in

Application Integration

.