Developing applications, services, and operations

Creating a project
A project is a collaborative environment that contains applications, services, and operations. You can define some access rights at the project level such as the users who can design or deploy applications.

Creating an application
An application is a container for a set of services. Because the application is the unit of deployment, all services within a single application must be deployed or undeployed together.

Importing RTI files
IBM InfoSphere Information Services Director also recognizes RTI export format files, also known as RTIX files.

Importing an application
You can import an application to accomplish tasks such as migrating applications from a development to a production environment.

Exporting an application
During development, IBM InfoSphere Information Services Director provides the ability to export and import projects, applications, and specific services.

Creating a service
Create a service to group related operations. When you create a service, you attach bindings based on the method you use to invoke operations from your client. This task also contains a step to indicate your security requirements for the service.

Attaching a binding to a service
Service consumers are able to access information services using multiple technologies for program interoperability. These technologies are called bindings.

Adding operations
Add operations to define the information tasks of a service. Each information service is composed of a set of operations that use artifacts such as database queries for its business logic. The implementation of operations, such as database queries and IBM InfoSphere DataStage jobs, is hidden from the service client. This loose coupling enables service clients to be developed independently of information services, and requires minimal coordination between the service developer and the service client developer.

Operation inputs, outputs, and provider properties
After choosing the job which will define the operation for your service, you can edit the inputs, outputs, and provider properties in the Information Provider pane. (For Federated queries, this pane also includes an SQL Statement tab.)