iWay Service Manager Welcome Window

Procedure: How to Open the iWay Service Manager Welcome Window

To open the iWay Service Manager Welcome window:

Select Welcome from the Start menu.
The iWay Service Manager Welcome window opens.

This Welcome window provides the following topics that you can explore:
- Getting Started - Learn about iWay Service Manager’s architecture and application in the Service-Oriented environment.
- Tutorials - Learn how to be productive using iWay Service Manager by completing end-to-end tutorials that will guide you along the way.
- Info Center - Provides access to iWay Service Manager’s documentation.
- What’s New - Discover what's new and what's improved in this version of iWay Service Manager.
Click a corresponding topic icon in the window to access that topic’s page.

Getting Started

The Getting Started page provides an overview of iWay Service Manager and describes the fundamental concepts.

To access the remaining topics that are available in the iWay Service Manager Welcome window, click the corresponding icon at the top of the page. You can also click the left blue arrow to return to the Welcome window.

Tutorials

The Tutorials page contains a link to a tutorial called Hello SOA World, which guides you through the process of building a service to implement the Hello World application using the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) provided by iWay Service Manager. This service will be exposed as an iWay Business Service that can be consumed by any web service-based business process over the Internet.

To access this tutorial, click the Hello SOA World link. The following page opens.

All the necessary instructions required to build the required transformation, process flow, and service are provided.

To access the remaining topics that are available in the iWay Service Manager Welcome window, click the corresponding icon at the top of the page. You can also click the left blue arrow to return to the Welcome window.

Samples

The Samples page contains links to a variety of samples that are provided with iWay Service Manager. These samples are complete end-to-end solutions that use pre-defined iWay components available in the iWay Service Manager Administration Console.

The following samples are available:

Basic iWay Samples - Illustrate simple ways to process file-based XML messages. Ultimately, these samples implement the processing of XML data through iWay Service Manager and can be used as a reference, as you build your own integration scenarios.
SciFi Books - Illustrates how to track new science fiction books as they are published and released for sale. This sample describes how to listen on an RSS feed (Really Simple Syndication), call public web services, update tables in a database, and work with transformations and process flows.
Pictures - Illustrates a simple way to load and retrieve a set of images into and from a database. This sample describes handling binary data through iWay Service Manager and can be a source of reference as you build your own flows.
Javadoc - Illustrates how to use iWay Service Manager to host a simple website. Webmasters are provided with a component-based framework that enables them to use iWay Service Manager to create a simple website.

To access a sample, click the name of the sample you want to explore.

To access the remaining topics that are available in the iWay Service Manager Welcome window, click the corresponding icon at the top of the page. You can also click the left blue arrow to return to the Welcome window.

What’s New

The What’s New page lists and describes new features in this version of iWay Service Manager.

The information is organized as follows:

Introduction
iWay Service Manager
iWay Adapters

To access the remaining topics that are available in the iWay Service Manager Welcome window, click the corresponding icon at the top of the page. You can also click the left blue arrow to return to the Welcome window.