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14.4.4 Web services gateway
With web services gateway functionality, users expose an existing web service as a new
service that appears to be provided by the gateway. Gateway functionality is supplied only in
WebSphere Application Server Network Deployment.
The gateway can act as a single point of control for incoming web services requests. It can be
used to run protocol transformation between messages. For example, it can expose a
SOAP/JMS web service over SOAP/HTTP. It can also map multiple target services to one
gateway service. It also can create proxy services and administer handlers for services it
manages, providing infrastructure-level facilities for security and logging, among others.
Using the gateway provides ...