### 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. To filter the Service Assemblies based on their lifecycle state, use the State drop-down list.

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

- Delete a Service Assembly. This removes a Service Assembly from all the targets to which it is deployed and removes the Service Assembly from the JBI repository.

- Enable or disable a Service Assembly. Enabling or disabling Service Assemblies applies to all the targets to which the Service Assemblies are deployed.

- View the general properties of a Service Assembly.