Adaptive Framework for SOA Rides on iWay
Company leverages its adapter technology to capture transactions as services
June 1, 2005 —
Building on its well-regarded adapter technology, iWay Software late last month released Adaptive Framework for SOA, an environment for opening up multiple systems in consistent, reusable ways.
“We have taken tools related to adaptation and product management, and integrated them into a single design-time desktop environment to create services, which can then be aggregated into larger services,” said Jake Freivald, iWay’s marketing director.
Launched in 2001 as a wholly owned subsidiary of business intelligence company Information Builders, iWay has built more than 280 adapters for a wide variety of partners, helping users to access resources without having to write code, Freivald said.
The runtime for the framework is the company’s Adapter Manager, which Freivald said provides an open service-bus architecture. “It’s the heart of the framework,” he said. The framework can be deployed on most major J2EE application servers or, in a minimal configuration, on a standard JVM. The framework, he explained, can take individual transactions captured via the adapters and aggregated services and expose them through such interfaces as Web services, EDI and Java Connector Architecture.
A second component in the framework is called Trading Partner Manager, a way to configure how a company wants to interact with its partners, Freivald said. “It defines messaging protocols, the kinds of messages it will accept, security [and] access right, and then can associate that channel with the services and events that partner needs,” he said.
For example, he said a service called “insert purchase order” could be associated with numerous channels, ensuring all trading partners are communicating with the company in a consistent way.
The final component is called Adapter Designer, used for the aggregation of existing services. Adapter Manager and a set of starter adapters sells for about US$70,000, Freivald said, and individual adapters cost about $20,000.
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