iWay Products and Components

In this section:

Your iWay integration solution works in conjunction with one or more of the following products and components:


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iWay Service Manager

iWay Service Manager is the heart of the Universal Integration 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 integration interactions makes it ideally suited to be the foundation of a service-oriented architecture.

For more information, see the IWay Service Manager User's Guide.


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iWay Transformer

iWay Transformer is a rule-based data transformation tool that converts an input document of one data format to an output document of another data format or structure. The easy-to-use graphical user interface and function tool set facilitate the design of transform projects that are specific to your requirements.

For more information, see the iWay Transformer User's Guide.



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Understanding Pipelined Transformations

A standard transformation process builds an internal output tree in order to manipulate the tree structure for complex transformations. However, this is not always necessary if the transformation requires only one-to-one mapping.

The definition of one-to-one mapping is that every input will be transformed to the corresponding output document and no function or explicit configuration will be used for the data (or tree) manipulation. If these conditions are met, then very fast and memory effective transformation can be achieved.

A pipelined transformation process is an implementation of one-to-one mapping, which is currently available for EDI to XML transformations. The current pipelined process will be enhanced to provide support for both directions for the formats that are listed in the following table.

Format

Non-XML > XML Pipeline

XML > Non-XML Pipeline

EDI

Yes

Yes

Since pipelining will be available in both directions, it has been decided to add the pipelined transformation process as an option when running transformations for Ebix components. Ebix components will:

  • Use one set of metadata for pipelined and standard transformations.
  • Have a flag for the run time mode of the transformation process, either Standard (default) or Pipelined.




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iWay Designer

The capability of graphically visualizing a business process is a powerful and necessary component of any e-Business offering. iWay Designer, a Windows-based design-time tool, provides a visual and user-friendly method of creating a business process, also called a process flow. Through a process flow, you control the sequence in which tasks are performed and the destination of the output from each task.

For more information, see the iWay Designer User's Guide. For details on using iWay Designer in configuring the iWay Integration Solution for EDI, see Defining a Route With iWay Designer.


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Activity Facility

The Activity Facility maintains a record describing each message that passes through the server. The messages are associated and integrated with the transactions. This makes it possible for an auditor to review them individually or in conjunction with other messages that fall within the scope of the same transaction. The Activity Facility can record:

For more information on using the Activity Facility, see the iWay Service Manager User's Guide.


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Correlation Facility

The Correlation Facility (also known as the Correlation Manager) maintains records of anticipated activities occurring in the system. Correlation actions take the correlation from OPEN to CLOSED state, and allow history to be recorded. Agents are provided to implement Correlation Facility interactions within process flows, however, it is possible to use this API to accomplish this same purpose within your own exits.

For more information on using the Correlation Facility, see the iWay Service Manager User's Guide and the iWay Service Manager Programmer's Guide.


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