Service A is available to implement a well encapsulated function that is required in the development of a business process. Service A is available only over an SSL transport and the business process…

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• AMacroflow
• BJava component
• CMediation component
• DShort running process

• A
  29% (6)
• B
  5% (1)
• C
  52% (11)
• D
  14% (3)

Explanation

A Mediation component acts as an intermediary that bridges incompatible transport protocols - in this case, translating between the JMS transport the business process uses and the SSL transport Service A requires. It is specifically designed for this kind of protocol mediation, message transformation, and routing without containing business logic itself.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A. Macroflow - a macroflow orchestrates long-running business processes; it doesn't handle transport-level protocol bridging.
• B. Java component - a Java component encapsulates custom business logic; while you could write custom code to bridge protocols, it's not the purpose-built tool for this integration concern.
• D. Short running process - this handles synchronous business logic execution, not protocol translation between services.

Memory tip: Think of Mediation as the "middleware translator" - whenever you see two systems that can't speak the same protocol language (SSL vs. JMS, HTTP vs. MQ, etc.), a Mediation component steps in the middle to interpret. If the problem describes a transport mismatch, the answer is almost always a Mediation component.

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