iWay Support for J2EE™ Application Servers

iWay's success is derived not only from the quality and quantity of it's adapters, but also from the number of application platforms that it supports. All iWay adapters work on any J2EE-compliant application server, allowing your Web applications to communicate with your legacy applications, transaction systems, and databases.

There is no doubt about the impact of J2EE application servers in today's marketplace. Changes perpetuated by the Internet and the Web allowed an enterprise to open its processes in real time to its customers, partners, and suppliers. This led to a new era in application development, featuring a tiered Web-centric application model which separated business applications into client, presentation, business object, and Enterprise Information System tiers. The J2EE application server model was born in an effort to standardize the development of Web-based applications.

iWay and JCA

The Java connector architecture evolved from the need to provide a standardized set of interfaces for communicating with back-end systems. As JDBC is the standard interface for database access, JCA is the standard interface for application access. iWay adapters are 100% JCA compliant and run on all J2EE application servers, including:

iWay adapters can be called from JSPs, servlets, or EJBs, giving you the flexibility to integrate at the application layer you want. For example, calls to retrieve customer information from Siebel can be made from your JSP pages or you can create a persistent entity bean which is bound to Siebel's customer record object.

iWay and JMS

Java Messaging Service (JMS) is another J2EE standard. JMS was incorporated into J2EE as a standard means of loosely coupled communication between applications and software components. JMS' key benefits are:

Asynchronous communication between components, which means that clients need not request messages, but can subscribe to relevant topics that centralize message delivery, a very complicated technical process
Reliability, because a JMS provider ensures message receipt and delivery, whether the EIS happens to be online or offline at that moment

All iWay adapters can write to and listen on any vendor's JMS message queues, minimizing your development costs and leading to a greater and quicker ROI, as well as a lower TCO. Using JMS queues with iWay adapters maximizes your ability to form an integrated enterprise architecture, leveraging your J2EE investments with your mission-critical system investments.

iWay and JDBC

JDBC is the de facto Java platform middleware protocol for accessing relational databases. iWay provides full JDBC support and allows your enterprise applications to write to databases as well as listen and react to database changes and events. Our tools give you the ability to invoke your RDBMS' stored procedures and create your own SQL queries with our graphical parameterized SQL Java tool.