## Binding Components and Service Engines

A JBI Component is either a Service Engine or a Binding Component. Service Engines are components that supply or consume services locally, that is, within the JBI environment. Binding Components provide or consume services that are outside of the JBI environment, typically using some sort of communications protocol.

JBI components, once installed in the JBI environment, interact with each other using message exchanges published by the JBI component providing the services. The message exchanges provide service descriptions that are the sole source of information needed for service consumer components to interact with the service provider.

From the Admin Console, you can do the following operations on the JBI Components:

- View JBI Components by their specific lifestyle states. For steps, see To View JBI Components.

- Install JBI Components. For steps to install, see To Install JBI Components.

- Uninstall JBI Components. For steps to uninstall JBI Components, see To Uninstall JBI Components.

- Manage the lifecycle states of the JBI Components. For steps, see To Manage Lifecycle States of JBI Components.

- View the general properties of a JBI Component. For the procedure to view properties, see Viewing General Properties of a JBI Component.

- View the configuration information for a JBI Component.

- View the descriptor for a JBI Component. For details about the descriptor, see Viewing JBI Descriptors.

- Manage JBI Component Loggers. For more information, see Managing JBI Component Loggers.