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The iWay Technology Adapter for ESRI 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 ESRI 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 iBSP.
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 the ESRI system metadata. The explorer enables you to create XML schemas and web services for the associated object. In addition, you can create ports and channels to listen for events in ESRI. External applications that access ESRI through the iWay Technology Adapter for ESRI use either XML schemas or web services to pass data between the external application and the adapter.
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.
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