IBM® WebSphere® Multichannel Bank
Transformation Toolkit version 8.0 provides
support for distributed architecture. The adoption of a distributed
architecture provides benefits to the system planner and developer.
Migration provides the following benefits:
- Dramatically improved scalability. A version 8.0 system
can scale from small- or medium-sized enterprises that have a single
server to large enterprises with server farms that are 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
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 WebSphere Multichannel
Bank Transformation Toolkit. This adds
flexibility to expanding enterprise applications that use third-party
components that are built with the same industry standard architectures.
- To enhance its flexibility, WebSphere Multichannel
Bank Transformation Toolkit maintains
much of its previous external design philosophy. WebSphere Multichannel
Bank Transformation Toolkit adds further
configurability by enabling deployment information to be configured.
Scaling and performance tuning are all performed by using configuration
settings rather than Java code
changes.
- Platform flexibility is provided using this configurability as
well. WebSphere Multichannel
Bank Transformation Toolkit version 8.0 can be
executed by 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.