Transoft
Intelligent Adapters
"Using Transoft Component
Adapters we have implemented a SOA strategy that has enabled
us to expose services to integrate our multiple
applications, which include our wholesale distribution
applications that are written in Transoft U/BL on UNIX and
RPG on the IBM System i. The benefits we have received with
this integration are amazing. We have streamlined
applications, reduced the code necessary to support ongoing
consumer business requirements, and have real-time
integration between completely separate applications."
Jim Moseley, Vice President, S.P. Richards Company
Transoft Intelligent Adapters enable core applications,
written in older languages such as COBOL, RPG, C, BASIC,
and others, to connect directly to newer applications
using the same standards that these modern programs use
to communicate with each other, for example, Web services
or COM, Java/EJB, CORBA, XML or ODBC/JDBC.
This family consists of two groups of adapter:
- Transoft U/SQL and Gateway Adapters
that deliver ODBC and JDBC data connectivity from non-relational
data, such as COBOL files, C-ISAM/D-ISAM, and BASIC
and relational data, such as Oracle and SQL Server
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further
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- Transoft Component Adapters
(TCA) that
deliver high performance and scalable business logic
and data services from a wide range of older application
environments, including COBOL, RPG, C, BASIC, etc.,
(and can be customized for other environments). These
adapters allow these core applications to be easily
connected to new modern development environments via
a wide range of Web services (XML/SOAP) and standards-based
connectors, including COM, Java, J2EE/EJB/JCA, Corba
and XML.
There are three types of Transoft Component
Adapters:
- Transoft Data Component Adapters
provide re-usable SQL services, with services based
interfaces direct to your relational and non-relational
data.
- Transoft Screen Component Adapters
provide a fast to implement, non-intrusive means of
connecting to terminal-based application "screens-flows" to
provide component-based services. These adapters
give all the advantages of component architectures,
including performance and scalability, without the
disadvantages of traditional screen scraping.
- Transoft Language Component Adapters
allow you to simply and quickly transform existing
business rules and logic code into high-performance
re-usable Web or application services that can be
integrated into new applications or enterprise application
servers.
The services delivered by the adapters can be accessed
via a wide range of Web services and standards-based
connectors, including:
- Web services (SOAP/XML)
- Natively with WSDL
- Natively with SOAP for Java proxy
- Via J2EE proxy
- Via C# .NET proxy
- COM/DCOM
- Microsoft .NET
- Java Beans and JCA connectivity to
Application Servers (WebSphere, WebLogic, etc.)
- CORBA
IDL
- XML (non-SOAP)
At the core of the Transoft Component Adapters is the
Transoft Component Broker that ensures automatic load
balancing for optimum performance and scalability, which
is essential to e-business applications.
Transoft Component Adapters
IDE
Additionally, the Transoft Component Adapters product
set includes an Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
as a graphical, wizard-based tool to define all the service
and component interfaces. Included in the IDE are features
to automatically generate SQL syntax for data services,
to capture navigation for screen-based services and appropriate
language skeleton code for wrapping business logic services.
Transoft Intelligent Adapters – The benefits:
- The integration of older core applications'
business logic and data into modern applications, using
standard-based Web services and component services.
- No application need remain an 'island-of-computing'.
- Opportunity to provide business-on-demand from your
core applications.
- Connecting applications together
with the Transoft Component Adapters uses the strengths,
skills and
knowledge of existing staff. Both the core application developers
and e-business or client/server programmers deal
with technology they already know.
- Increased ROI from core applications.
- Simply the most
flexible, cost-effective, fastest and minimum risk
integration solution for your core
applications.
Transoft's
Application
Migration and
Application
Modernization tools and solutions can operate
in conjunction with your need to integrate your core
applications. They provide you with a comprehensive approach
for the evolution of new solutions from your existing
applications throughout the entire lifecycle of these
applications.
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Intelligent Adapters
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