136 WebSphere Business Integrator Server Foundation V5.1 Handbook
7.1 Sample scenario
A fictional travel agency called NiceJourney will provide its travel arrangement
service over the Internet as a Web Service to its customers. To do this, the
NiceJourney travel agency has to communicate with an external partner, in order
to reserve flights for its customers. Therefore, the external partner is a Flight
Booking System which is also exposed as a Web Service. The customers
communicate with the NiceJourney Web Service via a Web Service client.
Hence, this scenario uses both the Business to Customer (B2C) and Business to
Business (B2B) model.
Currently, when a customer requests a travel arrangement, the NiceJourney
Web service requires the following ...