Bank Transformation Toolkit version 7.0 provides support for distributed
architecture. The adoption of a distributed architecture brings some immediate
benefits to the system planner and developer.
You can benefit from the migration in the following aspects:
- Scalability improves by an order of magnitude. A version 7.0 system
can scale from a small or medium enterprise having a single server to large
enterprises with server farms distributed across multiple regional data centers.
- Performance can be tuned by balancing hardware and network usage against
the expected user base. Rational® Application Developer and WebSphere® Integration
Developer provide many tools and guides for performing this tuning.
- Industry standards such as JCA, EJB, JMS, and Web services replace many
previous architectures and facilities in the toolkit. This adds flexibility
to expanding enterprise applications using third-party components that are
built with the same industry standard architectures.
- To enhance its flexibility, the toolkit maintains much of its previous
external design philosophy. It further adds more configurability to this mix
by allowing its deployment information to be configured. Scaling and performance
tuning are all performed using configuration settings rather than Java™ code
changes.
- Platform flexibility is provided using this configurability as well. Version
7.0 can execute using Rational Application Developer for small scale deployments
or it can make use of the enhanced features of WebSphere Integration Developer to
expand the available options to much larger enterprise deployments.
For more information about the benefits brought by BTT version 7.0, see
the Solution Architecture Document for BTT version 7.0.