1. Introduction

The {osbapi-href} defines an HTTP interface between the services marketplace of a platform and a service broker.

Service brokers are responsible for:

  • Advertising a catalog of their service offerings and plans

  • Provisioning (creating or updating) service instances

  • Creating bindings between a service instance and a client application

  • Deleting bindings between a service instance and a client application

  • De-provisioning (deleting) service instances

The {scosb-href} project provides the scaffolding for an {osbapi-href}-compliant service broker by implementing the required Spring web controllers, domain objects, and configuration. Service broker authors can provide Spring beans that implement the {scosb-api-services}package-summary.html[appropriate interfaces].