IBM i web services, SOA, and application integration made easy
Any functionality defined or accessed using looksoftware’s 'Dynamic Environment' can be accessed as a web service. Use soarchitect, together with newlook and centric to reuse your existing applications and extend and integrate them to deliver new solutions as composite applications.
The business case for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Gartner estimates that by 2010, 80% of midrange businesses will be deploying SOA to enable them to benefit from compelling business advantages including:
- Improved business agility
- Reduced software development costs
- More efficient, streamlined, business processes
- Simpler application integration
By programmatically accessing existing applications, including midrange systems written in RPG or Cobol, reusable modules can be created without changing the underlying application code. These reusable modules, or services, can be easily accessed by other applications within your business or indeed by external applications. They can act as building blocks in the delivery of new solutions.
How can soarchitect facilitate application integration?
- By allowing external business partners access to your applications via customized, secure web services
- By building smart client UIs that can access multiple information sources by consuming web services.
- By defining simple service interfaces for modules that may span multiple applications and platforms
- Use built-in MS Office support for web services to integrate existing applications
- A web service insulation layer minimizes disruption when changing applications and platforms
- An intelligent transaction recorder simplifies the process of exposing web services from existing applications
soarchitect developer - an integrated module of the looksoftware 'Dynamic Environment'
soarchitect is a developer component of the looksoftware 'Dynamic Environment'– a single integrated environment for modernizing existing IT assets and delivering the benefits of composite applications. Dynamic access to the presentation, application and database layers, provides you with the flexibility to define your service modules to include the required mix of new and existing functionality.