Where InfoSphere Information Services Director fits in the suite architecture

InfoSphere® Information Services Director relies on other components of InfoSphere Information Server for understanding, cleansing, and transforming information and deploys those integration tasks as consistent and reusable information services.

SOA architects can search and browse services by category and view descriptions that are defined by InfoSphere Information Services Director. The directory of available services is linked to the shared metadata repository to enable centralized management of data integration services. If WebSphere® Service Registry and Repository is installed, InfoSphere Information Services Director also provides a direct link to the WebSphere Service Registry and Repository.

Each service is published by defining operations completed by an operations provider. InfoSphere Information Services Director agents contain handlers to process service requests from InfoSphere DataStage®, InfoSphere QualityStage®, IBM® DB2®, InfoSphere Federation Server, Oracle, and IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management Server.

Service consumers can access information services by using multiple technologies for program interoperability. InfoSphere Information Services Director uses the same service to support multiple protocol bindings, all defined within the WSDL file. This implementation improves the utility of services and increases the likelihood of reuse and adoption across the enterprise. InfoSphere Information Services Director provides the ability to publish the same service by using SOAP over HTTP (web services), SOAP and text over JMS, EJB, REST, REST 2.0, and RSS.