In the recent years, organizations shifted from legacy oriented integration solution, to business workflow oriented component architectures. ApplinX offers the most modern legacy-integration solution, by quickly and efficiently encapsulation of legacy workflows into standard Web services.
Overview
ApplinX Server runs as a comprehensive web services execution environment. Upon installation, ApplinX can expose host transactions as well defined web services, for integration into enterprise portals and B2B inter-organization workflows.
ApplinX's unique architecture easily leverages such legacy assets (RPC or screen-based workflows) into standard web services. Using SOAP protocol over HTTP, or HTTP Post method, ApplinX manages these web services as a centralized integration server, and enables quick deployment of any selected client for further integration.
What Are Web Services
Web services are a standardized way of integrating Web-based applications using the XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI open standards over an Internet protocol backbone. Web services allow different applications from different sources to communicate with each other without time-consuming custom coding, and because all communication is in XML, Web services are not tied to any one operating system or programming language.
In the recent years, organizations shifted from legacy oriented integration solution, to business workflow oriented component architectures. This approach has successfully proved to enable quick response to business change, and immediate strategic value extraction from mission critical legacy assets.
According to META Group, during 2002/03, demand for highly scalable e-commerce solutions that leverage transactional legacy mainframe systems (such as CICS, TPF, IMS, DB2) will drive screen-based data integration, with migration to more complex object-like, transaction-centric frameworks and components during 2004-06.
Benefits
Organizations wishing to leverage business processes that reside on their legacy platforms can now use ApplinX as a full-range legacy integration server. ApplinX provides means for bridging between the legacy backoffice applications, and the new strategic environments of the organizations, from connectivity and legacy extension (to web, mobile devices, or other clients), to efficient encapsulation of legacy-based workflows or remote procedure calls (RPC) into business objects and web services.
By using ApplinX, the organization gains maximum flexibility in strategic legacy integration, and unity in the broad range of integration needs.
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