EntireX The Vehicle to Business Integration

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EntireX - The Vehicle to Business Integration

• Marguerite Hagman, Systems Engineer
• Software AG, Inc.

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What is EntireX?

• A componentized approach to Business Integration
• EntireX Communicator
• EntireX Broker Broker services
• EntireX Security
• EntireX Developer Kit
• EntireX Mediator
• XML Document processing framework

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Components of EntireX Communicator

• Broker
• Broker Services
• Developers Kit
• Security
• EntireX Manager

• Very flexible high-performance messaging
• Adapters (LU6.2, MQSeries) Attach Manager
• Tools and APIs to attach applications to the
  EntireX Communicator DCOM and Java bindings
  CORBA, XML and SOAP support
• Mainframe SAF supportSeamless integration of
  Windows and Unix security
• Monitoring Managing

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Messaging Styles

• RPC Remote Procedure Call
• ACI Advanced Communication Interface

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EntireX Communicator RPC
SOAP
EntireX Broker
Natural RPC Server
(Tamino)
X-tension Wrapper
Natural PDA
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Web Services Natural XML Wrapper
Request
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Natural XML Wrapper
Natural
EntireX Broker
XML Adapter
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Result
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Web Services Natural XML Wrapper
Natural XML Wrapper
XML Wrapper
WSDL
Development
Natural
EntireX Broker
XML Adapter
HTTP Server
RPC
XML
Runtime
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EntireX Communicator ACI
ClassAclass ServerAserver ServiceAservice Func
tionRegister
EntireX Broker
Natural Subprogram
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ActiveX Control
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Summary

• ACI
• Programs Only
• Persistence
• Sync Async
• requires coding

• RPC
• Subprograms only
• no persistence
• sync only
• no coding

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What Is EntireX Mediator?
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Communicator and Mediator Compared

• EntireX Communicator
• Programming Interfaces
• Application integration Solution
• Synchronous Asynchronous
• Desktop integration
• Platform integration
• Application integration
• Platform specific capabilites

• EntireX Mediator
• Non-Programming
• Behavior-oriented integration
• Open web technology
• XML transformations based on style sheets (XSLT)
• Document processing
• Uses open, standards-based XML techniques
  exclusively

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EntireX Mediator

• An XML Integration Broker technology
• A dynamic, content oriented XML router
• User composes behavior
• Rather than an API interface
• Rather than an integration flow
• Input must be XML
• Output need not be XML

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Benefits

• Reduce impact of change (cost, time)
• incurred by ever-changing document structures
  and communication architectures in a fluctuating
  partner network.
• Increase independence from proprietary business
  integration solutions
• with an extensible architecture built on
  Internet standards like XML, XSLT and HTTP.
• Reduce implementation time
• with pre-fabricated XML document management
  components matching popular application patterns

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EntireX Mediator Features

• Sequencer Complex transactions typically
  require management of multiple actions before a
  result is returned. The discovery area allows you
  to identify the flow.
• Apply rules based on content and/or structure
• Rules can be modified dynamically
• Transformation adapts the structure and content
  of documents to match that of the processing
  application. It uses XSLT standards to manage
  the different source and destination formats.
• Replication - allow replication of transactions
• Aggregator - Collects transactions results from
  anywhere in the sequence
• Validation catches malformed documents and
  takes them out of the XML process flow so that
  incorrect data is not inserted into backend
  applications.

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EntireX Mediator
XML Applications
Design
Java,C,packages, Web services
Sequencer
Existing Applications
XML
HTTP
discovery
Mainframe,Unix, AS400Windows ...
EntireX
transformation
SMTP
validation
...
replication/aggregation
E-Mail
Tamino, File system
logging
SMTP
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The Sequencer GUI
XML View
Global View
Project View
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The Sequence
? Discover document attributes
? Decision based on rules and attributes
? Replication
? Gateway Response
? Log request before processing
? Gateway Back-end request
? Log request after processing
? Aggregation
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EntireX Mediator In Summary

• Intuitive, GUI-driven XML integration
• No coding
• Real-time information enterprise integration
• Leverage your distributed data into valuable
  business information
• Rules based processing
• Release business partners from knowing
  architecture and formats
• Embraces open industry standards
• XSLT, HTTP, XML, SMTP

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EntireX Connectivity

• Distributed application development
• Mission critical application access via multiple
  technologies and protocols
• Web Server accessibility
• Server application dispatching and load balancing
• XML based behavioral document routing
• XML resource based application development
• Maximum results for least effort, time and cost