### Service Assemblies

A Service Assembly is a collection of Service Units that provision target components that together provide or consume specific services for an application. Service Assemblies are typically created in a development tools environment, such as that provided by the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (NetBeans IDE).

From the Admin Console, you can do the following:

- View all the Service Assemblies, with support for sorting and for filtering by lifecycle state. For steps to do this, see To View Service Assemblies.

- Deploy a Service Assembly. For steps on how to deploy a Service Assembly, see the section To Deploy a Service Assembly.

- Undeploy a Service Assembly. For steps to undeploy a Service Assembly, see To Undeploy Service Assemblies.

- Manage the lifecycle of a Service Assembly. For information on the steps to manage the lifecycle of a Service Assembly, see To Manage the Lifecycle States of a Service Assembly.

- View the general properties of a Service Assembly. For steps to view the general properties of a Service Assembly, see Viewing General Properties of a Service Assembly

- View the descriptor for a Service Assembly. For steps to display the descriptor, see the section Viewing JBI Descriptors