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Transformation Toolkit version 7.1 provides
support for distributed architecture. Adopting a distributed architecture
provides the benefits to both system planners and developers.
Migration provides the following benefits:
- Scalability improves by an order of magnitude. A version 7.1 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. IBM Rational® Application Developer and IBM WebSphere Integration Developer provide
the 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.