Protocols Supported in iWay Service Manager

Protocols define how information is physically controlled during its movement through a process. This is distinguished from format, which describes how data is stored and represents information. Protocol adapters are iWay adapters that enable messages to be accepted from and emitted onto transports such as files, HTTP, and IBM MQ Series, regardless of the meaning of the data carried by the message. iWay Protocol adapters enable iWay services to be applied to arbitrary messages regardless of the transport on which the messages move.

Protocol adapters are coupled with transformation EIS and format adapters to provide meaningful adapter services across protocols. Almost all integration activities require transformation from source format to target format. For process integration, this may require transformation between different API or message formats, whereas in data integration, the transformations are between different data repository schema and semantic definitions.

The base transformation process involves format modifications (both syntax and semantic mapping). Often more sophisticated transformation processes like message augmentation (or boosting) and data cleansing are required to handle the idiosyncrasies of application implementations. For more information on transformation capability, see the iWay Transformer User's Guide.

Message handlers deal with the discovery (parsing) of the in-bound message content, the optional conversion to a common internal format, and building the format expected by the target systems. Current implementations use XML as the internal format and increasingly, use XML for the out-bound message format.

Message routing is a key component of the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solution and includes the following:

The following is a list of the available iWay Protocol adapters.

e-Business Adapters

Application Adapters

Transport Utility Adapters

Queueing Adapters


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