iWay Service Manager (iSM) is an enterprise service bus (ESB) product that enables you to create, compose, and manage services, whether they are deployed as web services or as services accessible through other commonly-used and industry-standard interfaces. iSM lays the foundation for a quickly deployable and easily maintainable Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) or Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) for your enterprise. iSM is lightweight, general purpose, and highly configurable.

The following image shows the Calendar Settings page of the iSM Administration Console. Here you can configure a Calendar Provider to define 18 months of Holiday/Skip dates, which when used with the Schedule Provider, allows you to fine tune the scheduled execution of tasks.

Key Features and Advantages

Key features and advantages that are provided through iSM and its associated facilities include:

• A robust, highly scalable and customizable platform for message and transaction processing. iSM is packaged with its own high performance ESB, which enables integration across an array of systems. It also enables you to join other ESBs already in place in other enterprise deployments by providing and following standard interfaces and message processing concepts for synchronous and asynchronous communication. For a seamless deployment into existing infrastructures, iSM can also run within common web application servers.
• A highly secure communication and data processing framework by conforming to the latest industry standards, which includes secure communication with:
  • AS2
  • SSL/TLS
  • SFTP
  • FTP/S
  • REST
  • SOAP

  Data security services are also supported through:

  • XML Digital Signatures (XML DSIG)
  • XML Advanced Electronic Signatures (XAdES-c)
  • AES

  An array of additional encryption and signature services are available to ensure that the data is not compromised during processing. iSM provides support for file-based, as well as hardware-based, security modules and enables the use of a centralized Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) for certificate management. Messages carried within iSM and across the bus can be encrypted for intra- and inter-process security.

• Required facilities to develop an application that takes into account possible Denial of Service Attacks, security violations, and provides avenues for handling and trapping such events, if they occur. iWay event flows are designed to capture any events in data processing or communication, and execute designated application logic without interfering with main application processing.
• A secure native queuing system that enables message prioritization, persistence, ordering, retry-capability, and optimized message propagation across iWay channels. The iWay Reverse Verified Invocation (RVI) gateway allows you to propagate messages transparently across existing firewalls. This is in addition to using and communicating with an array of external systems for data processing, enrichment, and tracking.
• Modularization using cross-channel message exchanges. In addition to simplifying application development and maintenance, an application that is composed of modular sections provides horizontal and vertical scaling. The modular sections can be executed:
  • within the same JVM, which facilitates the selection of the appropriate threading model for that portion of the application.
  • across JVMs on the same computer to take advantage of the dispatching mechanisms that belong to this computer.
  • across computers, which allows several computer systems to work on the application simultaneously.

  The mechanisms that support cross-channel message exchanges provide opportunities for workload balancing and backup/recovery when used in appropriately designed applications.

iWay Activity Monitor

iWay Activity Monitor is an extension of iSM and provides an end-to-end, non-invasive view into transaction life cycles as they span across multiple channels and iSM servers.

The following image shows the Transaction Activity tab in the Activity Management area of iWay Activity Monitor, which provides a quick way to view ongoing transactions in real time. This enables you to easily diagnose and troubleshoot an error by tracing back to the source of the issue.

Key Features and Advantages

Key features and advantages that are provided through iWay Activity Monitor include:

• Ability to capture, analyze, resolve, audit, and act upon real-time business transaction events that are gathered. The architecture of iWay Activity Monitor is based on iSM and uses standard iSM components to provide a seamless integration with an existing application life cycle.
• A two layer architecture to distinguish and increase control over data capture and presentation capabilities. A data capture layer is facilitated by the iWay Activity Monitor driver facility, and a data presentation layer is facilitated by the iWay Activity Monitor web application console.
• Support for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), allows you to track iWay activity within a managed network using any popular SNMP tool.

iWay Trading Partner Manager

iWay Trading Partner Manager (TPM) enables centralized management of partner, system, and external entity information. Providing a user-friendly interface, iWay TPM can be used in B2B and other applications. The data from iWay TPM is then used to dynamically drive and process the transactions, and load additional systems and partners on board. iSM is designed for dynamic configuration based on external (and message) properties to enable dynamic message processing and routing.

The following image shows the iWay TPM web console, where you can access various facilities easily by clicking the corresponding tabs at the top of the console. For example, if you are required to define a trading partner, which sends and/or receives messages using an iSM configured application, then you would click the Partners tab to access the Partners facility.

The Partners facility enables you to select an input and output message type that can be processed by a trading partner system you define.

Key Features and Advantages

Key features and advantages that are provided through iWay TPM include:

• Simplifying the creation and management of trading partner agreements using a design-time GUI (iWay TPM web console) and additional run-time capabilities.
• Using Audit Manager, which is called automatically at points during the message lifecycle. Audit Manager can be configured to record any stage of message processing and can be accessed from the web console for transaction review. The Audit Manager is designed to be extended or replaced depending on business requirements.
• Using Correlation Manager to identify the state of a message (send, technical acknowledgement, satisfaction), what acknowledgments are expected for each message, and whether they have been executed. This can also be used to monitor service-level agreements (SLAs).
• Using iWay TPM Information and Profile facilities. These facilities provide access to variables about each trading partner, correlation information, and other important B2B information. This includes transformations and process flows used for each partner, access keys (for example, ISA06), error handler contacts, DUNS numbers, and more.

iWay Integration Applications

iWay Integration Applications (iIAs) provide for application packaging and migration across various deployment environments (for example, Development, QA, Production, and so on). This allows you to ensure the integrity of an application during its entire life cycle.

The following image shows the Applications pane in the iSM Administration Console, which allows you to upload, download, create, and delete iIAs (for example, Dev and Prod) according to your requirements.

Key Features and Advantages

Key features and advantages that are provided through iWay Integration Applications (iIAs) include:

• Usage of standard iSM components to provide a seamless integration with existing application life cycles.
• Eliminates the need for most custom integration code.
• Simplifies the overall process of designing and maintaining iIAs through a user-friendly GUI interface within iWay Integration Tools (iIT) and the iSM Administration Console.
• Rapid deployment of iIAs into key environments (for example, Development, QA, Production, and so on).

Flow Debugger

The Flow Debugger is a command line debugger for process flows deployed within a configuration. It offers a developer step-wise testing of business process flows during the development phase and, if required, during actual production runs.

The Flow Debugger allows for setting breakpoints and watchpoints, single-stepping nodes, debugging subflows, setting registers, changing the current document, among other functions. The Flow Debugger can be attached to a running application to debug in-situ if required.

The Flow Debugger works in two modes, standalone unit testing mode, or server configuration testing mode.

• Unit Testing Mode. In this mode, the Flow Debugger starts the flow. The input document comes from the Flow Debugger and the output document is trapped by the Flow Debugger. This mode is ideal if the flow can be tested without the channel protocol.
• Configuration Testing Mode. In this mode, the server channels start the flows and provide the initial documents. The output documents are handled normally by the channel outlets. This mode makes it possible to debug an entire application (iIA).