Application integration
Overview
IBM provides connectors to enterprise applications using the Java Connector Architecture (JCA). In addition, the Application Portlet Builder is provided for building portlets that interact with other enterprise applications.
JCA is a standard architecture for integrating J2EE applications with enterprise information systems that are not relational databases. Each of these systems provides native APIs for identifying a function to call, specifying its input data, and processing its output data. The goal of the JCA is to provide an independent API for coding these functions.
JCA also defines a standard Service Provider Interface (SPI) for integrating the transaction, security, and connection management facilities of an appserver with those of a transactional resource manager. Thus, JCA is a standards-based approach to managing connections, transactions, and secure access to enterprise application systems. IBM JCA connectors provide access to systems such as...
Leveraging its CrossWorlds acquisition, IBM plans to develop and integrate JCA connectors to many other systems.
WebSphere Studio Site Developer provides a complete development and unit test environment for applications that use JCA connectors, Web services, and microflows. WebSphere Studio Site Developer tools include support for Web Service Definition Language (WSDL), developer versions of the connectors, the Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF), and the microflow engine.
WebSphere Portal Application Integrator (WPAI) Portlet Builder
With the WPAI Portlet Builder, users can create portlets that can access and manipulate data in an enterprise application without programming knowledge of the system. By selecting business objects that are available from the enterprise application, users can specify which data fields should be displayed in a portlet. When the portlet is created, the portlet can be made available to portal users.
Two portlet builders are included with this edition of WebSphere Portal: the latest WPAI Portlet Builder that supports Domino, PeopleSoft, SAP and Siebel and another WPAI-based JDBC Portlet Builder, which is from the previous WebSphere Portal release. For more information, refer to the WPAI topic.
Application Portlet Builder
With the Application Portlet Builder, users can create portlets that can access and manipulate data in an enterprise application without programming knowledge of the system. By selecting business objects that are available from the enterprise application, users can specify which data fields should be displayed in your portlet. When the portlet is created, the portlet can be made available to portal users.Two builders are included with this edition of WebSphere Portal, Domino Portlet Builder and JDBC Portlet Builder.
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