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Your iWay adapter works in conjunction with one of the following components:
When hosted in an iWay environment, the adapter is configured through iWay Service Manager and iWay Explorer. iWay Explorer is used to configure system connections, create SQL statements, batches, and web services as well as configure event capabilities. iWay Service Manager can access this configuration information through the iWay7 repository to create a robust integration solution.
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 writing custom integration code by:
Its capability to manage complex adapter interactions makes it ideally suited to be the foundation of a service-oriented architecture.
iWay Explorer uses a tree metaphor to introspect a system for metadata. The explorer enables you to generate XML schemas and add web services for the associated object. In addition, you can create ports and channels to listen for events in a system. External applications that access a system through the adapter use either XML schemas or web services to pass data between the external application and the adapter.
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:
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.