Client applications (consumers) invoke Corticon Server, sending a data payload as part of a request message. The invocation of Corticon Server can be either indirect (such as when using SOAP) or direct (such as when making in-process Java calls). This request contains the name of the Corticon Decision Service (the Decision Service Name assigned in the Deployment Descriptor file that should process the payload. Corticon Server matches the payload to the Decision Service and then commences execution of that Decision Service. One Corticon Server can manage multiple, different Decision Services, each of which might reference a different Vocabulary.
