A WebSphere business integration system implemented with InterChange Server uses modular components and application-independent business logic. The InterChange Server approach uses a distributed, hub-and-spoke infrastructure. It enables you to execute business processes--e-business order fulfillment, returns processing, or inventory management, for example--that are distributed across the Internet, across applications on local networks, or both. The system is distributed and flexible, with reusable components and customization features that make it possible to meet site-specific and application-specific needs.
An implementation of InterChange Server utilizes the connectors provided by the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters product, together with several types of modular and customizable components, including collaborations, business objects, maps, and data handlers. The chapters that follow in this guide described how these components are used in a WebSphere business integration system with InterChange Server as the broker.
The IBM WebSphere InterChange Server provides ennoblement for use with IBM Tivoli License Manager. IBM WebSphere InterChange Server provides support for license management functions as well as inventory functions for server components and Toolset. (See Access Development Guide for Enterprise Java Beans and Access Development Guide J2EE Connector Architecture for more information.