Branch Transformation Toolkit version 5.2 provides support
for distributed architecture. The adoption of a distributed architecture provides
some immediate benefits to the system planner and developer:
- Scalability improves by an order of magnitude. A version 5.2 system can
scale from a small/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 2.0, Struts, and Web services replace
many previously architectures and facilities in the toolkit. This adds flexibility
to expanding enterprise applications using third-party components built using
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
5.2 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.
Read the Solution architecture document for Branch Transformation Toolkit
version 5.2 for more information about the benefits coming with version 5.2.