IBM WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit, Version 7.1

Enterprise Server

The enterprise server, or the back-end server, contains the existing core business logic of the financial institution that is accessed by the toolkit application. A toolkit application does not require changes to such a system or changes to its messaging interface. This is possible because the toolkit includes a rich set of back-end system connector components and message formatters. WebSphere® Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit JCA SNA and Invoker components are provided for SNA (LUA interfaces), JMS, EJB, Web Services, and any other customer extensions.

On the other hand, if you have already built up the SOA based back-end system such as ESB, the toolkit enables your applications to support Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) integration.

WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit interfaces with WebSphere Process Server (which contains WebSphere ESB) for business process automation and enterprise application integration. WebSphere Message Broker and WebSphere Business Services Fabric can be added depending on the SOA requirements. But typically, they do not interface with WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit directly.

Figure 1 shows the position of the enterprise server in the architecture of WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit (BTT):

Figure 1. The position of the enterprise server in the architecture of WebSphere Multichannel Bank Transformation Toolkit (BTT)
Diagram showing the position of the enterprise server in the BTT architecture


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