Deployment Information for the iWay Emulation Adapter (3270/5250)

The iWay Emulation Adapter (3270/5250) can be used 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 adapter connections, create web services, and configure event capabilities.

When the adapter is hosted in a third party application server environment, iWay Explorer can be configured to work in a web services environment in conjunction with the iBSP.

Deployment Information Roadmap

The following table lists the location of deployment and user information for components of the iWay Emulation Adapter (3270/5250).

Deployed Component	For more information, see
iWay Service Manager	iWay Service Manager User's Guide
iWay Explorer	iWay Installation and Configuration
iWay Business Services Provider (iBSP)	iWay Installation and Configuration

iWay Service Manager

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:

Creating metadata from target applications.
Transforming and mapping interfaces.
Managing stateless processes.

Its capability to manage complex adapter interactions makes it ideally suited to be the foundation of a service-oriented architecture.

iWay Explorer

iWay Explorer uses an explorer metaphor to create XML schemas and web services for the associated object. In addition, you can create ports and channels to listen for events.

iWay Business Services Provider

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:

Custom and legacy applications.
Database queries and stored procedures.
Packaged applications.
Terminal emulation and screen-based systems.
Transactional systems.

Web services is a distributed programming architecture that solves Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) hurdles that other programming models cannot. It enables programs to communicate with one another using a text-based, platform- and language-independent message format called XML.

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.