Logically, Oracle Determinations Server may be thought of as a service on a remote machine, providing the operations necessary to perform an assessment of a case where all of the necessary data has already been acquired.
Physically, Oracle Determinations Server manifests itself as a web service exposing one port consisting of a number of Determinations Server Services and Rulebase Web Services, that are accessible via SOAP packets:
To the client application, depending upon the implementation language, Oracle Determinations Server may simply look like a remote object with a number of services. However, regardless of the client application’s implementation viewpoint, the semantics of the service’s exposed operations remain the same.
See also:
Determinations Server Services
Explicit Data Set - Generic Data Model