Understanding iWay Event Functionality

Events are generated as a result of activity in a database or application system. You can use events to trigger an action in your application. For example, an update to a database can reflect an update to customer information. If your application must perform an action when this happens, your application is a consumer of this event.

After you create a connection to your application system, you can add events using iWay Explorer. To create an iWay event, you must create a port and a channel.

The following is a description of how ports and channels work: