Component Information for the Adapter

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The iWay Application Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics 2011 CRM On-Premises works with the following components:

When hosted in an iWay environment, the adapter is configured through iWay Service Manager (iSM) and iWay Explorer. iWay Explorer is one of the iWay Integration Tools distributed with the iSM package and is used to configure MS CRM connections and create web services.

In this release, the iWay Application Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics 2011 CRM On-Premises is available only in the iSM component environment.

iWay Service Manager

iWay Service Manager is the heart of the Universal Adapter Framework and is an open transport service bus. Service Manager uses graphical tools to create sophisticated integration services without the need for custom integration code by:

  • Creating metadata from target applications.
  • Transforming and mapping interfaces.
  • Managing stateless processes.

Its capability to manage complex adapter interactions makes it an ideal foundation for a service-oriented architecture.

iWay Explorer

iWay Explorer, provided as part of the iWay Integration Tools (iIT) suite, uses a tree metaphor to introspect the MS CRM system metadata. The explorer enables you to create XML schemas and web services for the associated MS CRM entity.

External applications that access MS CRM through the iWay Application Adapter for Microsoft Dynamics 2011 CRM On-Premises use either XML schemas or web services to pass data between the external application and the adapter.

iWay Business Services Provider

The iWay Business Services Provider (iBSP) exposes, as web services, enterprise assets that are accessible from adapters regardless of the programming language or the particular operating system.

iBSP simplifies the creation and execution of web services when running:

  • Custom and legacy applications.
  • Database queries and stored procedures.
  • Packaged applications.
  • Terminal emulation and screen-based systems.
  • Transactional systems.

Coupled with a platform and language independent messaging protocol called SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), XML enables application development and integration by assembling previously built components from multiple web services.