About platform common services (PCS)

Platform Common Services comprise a framework that hosts services based on general principles of a service-oriented architecture (SOA).

• SOA provides a mesh of interoperable services that can be used within a single system or extended to external systems based on an established trust relationship between the systems.

• SOA also generally provides a way for services to discover other available SOA-based services.

PCS components are installed with Application Server as part of the System Platform installation. PCS functionality appears as menu items in the IDE. For information about the PCS components in the IDE, see Setting Up a Multi-Galaxy Environment.

PCS components include a set of core run-time services, a catalog of user-configurable services, and a scheme that enables connectivity, interoperability and exchange of data among the services as well as with internal and external applications.