iWay Intelligent Adapters for BEA WebLogic

BEA's Preferred Provider of Adapter Connectivity

iWay's Universal Adapter Suite plugs natively into the BEA WebLogic Platform, an investment which has provided a secure, scalable, manageable, and reliable framework for your Java™ and Web-based business applications. Integrating these applications with the disparate systems and technologies that exist within your IT environment is not only a tremendous challenge, but also a competitive necessity. iWay's Universal Adapter Suite is BEA's preferred and proven solution for creating interfaces from the BEA WebLogic Platform to more than 300+ enterprise information systems.

• Provides access to over 300 packaged applications, legacy mainframe systems, data sources, middleware technologies, and e-business formats
• Enables service-oriented and event-driven architectures via bidirectional interfaces to 300+ enterprise information systems
• Uses standards such as JCA, WSDL, and SOAP to create reusable interfaces from information assets for use with BEA WebLogic Server, Portal, and Integration
• Enables the creation of BEA WebLogic Workshop Controls and Application Views from interfaces created through a GUI tool – absolutely no interface coding required
• Maximizes ROI and reduces TCO by masking the complexity of packaged applications and legacy systems
• Taps into virtually any information system or business process using standard BEA, Java™, and XML skill sets

Key Adapter Framework Features and Benefits

• Enables the creation of services and events from 300+ enterprise information systems
• GUI tool for application introspection and metadata generation
• Only one acquired skill set needed to create interfaces using the adapters
• Interfaces are reusable through JCA, Web Services, .NET, JMS, and many more
• Absolutely no coding required for mainframe or AS/400 Integration
• Advanced run-time control and dynamic load balancing

Support for 300+ Enterprise Information Systems

iWay's native integration into BEA WLI and JCA-based integration into BEA WebLogic Server and Portal allows you to seamlessly incorporate iWay's 300 intelligent adapters into your environment, integrating your J2EE™ applications with your enterprise information systems, all within a Universal Adapter Framework. iWay provides intelligent adapters for:

• Application packages such as Siebel, SAP, PeopleSoft, Ariba, Lawson, Clarify, and many more
• Electronic business formats such as UCCnet, SWIFT, FIX, HIPAA, ebXML, OAG BODs, and XBRL
• Legacy database systems such as VSAM, Adabas, Ingres, MUMPS, Teradata, Unisys, and many others
• Relational databases such as Oracle, MS SQL Server, Informix, Sybase, and many more
• Transaction environments such as CICS, IMS, and Tuxedo
• 35 mainframe, midrange, UNIX, and PC operating platforms
• Custom 3GL and 4GL applications
• .NET assemblies
• Messaging products such as Sonic MQ, Oracle AQ, MQSeries™, and JMS™
• Component technologies such as COM, CORBA, and EJB™
• The presentation tiers of "green-screen" 3270 and 5250 applications

Seamless Integration Using Web Services, JCA, or JMS From Within BEA WebLogic Platform

All of iWay's design-time tools are tightly integrated into BEA WebLogic Workshop and WebLogic Platform. This equates to quicker development times and reduced tools and skill sets for your IT department to manage. Using iWay adapters from within the BEA WebLogic Platform to integrate your IT assets is a simple process:

• Use the iWay Application Explorer to introspect applications and generate application metadata from your enterprise information systems (WSDL or XML schemas)
• Create a SOAP-based Web service from the generated metadata in two mouse-clicks
• Import metadata from the generated WSDL into WebLogic Workshop for incorporation as schemas, Web services, process files, controls, etc.

Advanced Capabilities for Mainframe and AS/400

Through a single relational database adapter, a relational interface to both relational and nonrelational databases is created, enabling integration with 80 data sources on 35 platforms from your BEA applications. iWay's seamless integration with the BEA WebLogic Platform allows developers to use the same design-time tools for integrating complex, mainframe-based data sources as they do for common JDBC databases, reducing the complexity and time involved with mainframe integration projects.

Leveraging iWay's native integration with WebLogic Integration, your RDBMS adapter will automatically translate SQL or XML data requests into the native data manipulation language (DML) for the targeted data source. This translation capability makes nonrelational database and sequential file data look like standard relational database tables to reduce the need for end-system knowledge and speeds the development of integration projects.

iWay's DML achieves its superior data-retrieval capabilities by utilizing native APIs, C, or Java-based interfaces and extends to support heterogeneous joins between disparate data sources and two-phase commit support, including nonrelational data stores. In addition to data access, iWay provides a metadata repository and a complete set of tools for the creation of metadata, including relational and nonrelational data. iWay's enhanced metadata capabilities extend to include the ability to create virtual-fields definitions for any data source.

Accelerating Integration Initiatives

iWay is the world's leading provider of software for connecting application frameworks to legacy mainframe databases, composite packaged applications, transaction processing systems, relational database systems, and other business systems. All iWay adapters are accessible, without the need to write and maintain code, within the same Universal Adapter Framework, accelerating your integration project timelines and lowering your TCO.