Component Products in Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite

Sun SeeBeyond eGate Integrator
Sun SeeBeyond eInsight Business Process Manager
Sun SeeBeyond eXchange Integrator
Sun SeeBeyond eXpressway Integrator
Sun SeeBeyond eTL Integrator
Sun SeeBeyond eVision Studio
Sun SeeBeyond eBAM Studio
Sun SeeBeyond eView Studio
Sun SeeBeyond eWay Intelligent Adapters
Sun Java System Portal Server
Sun Java System Application Server
Sun Java System Web Server
Sun Java System Web Proxy Server
Sun Java System Directory Server
Sun Java System Access Manager
Sun Java Studio Enterprise
Sun Java Studio Creator

eGate Integrator is a J2EE technology-compliant and web-services-based distributed integration platform and the foundation of Java CAPS. It is designed to dramatically lower the total cost of ownership (TCO) of developing, deploying, and managing integrations over time. eGate Integrator provides core integration including comprehensive systems connectivity, guaranteed messaging, and robust transformation capabilities. It also provides a unified, single sign-on environment for integration development, deployment, monitoring and management. eGate Integrator is the first and only J2EE-certified integration platform to support native operation of its integration technology over third-party J2EE application servers. It includes the industry's first enterprise-scale integration change management tools, significantly lowering TCO.

eInsight Business Process Manager layers above eGate Integrator to enable process-driven integration. eInsight Business Process Manager allows business analysts to model, test, implement, monitor, manage, and optimize business processes that orchestrate the flow of activities across any number of web services, systems, people, and partners. eInsight provides an open graphical modeling environment using BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation) as the graphical modeling notation and BPEL4WS (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, also known as WS-BPEL) to execute the process. With eInsight Business Process Manager in place, there is no need for employees to manually bridge the gaps between systems: eInsight automates these interactions, accelerates processes, lowers the operational costs, and dramatically improves process visibility and quality. eInsight lets businesses monitor, manage, analyze, and optimize key processes as they happen to satisfy customer demands quickly.

eXchange Integrator is a web-based trading partner profile management and message-tracking solution that accelerates the creation and maintenance of business partner relationships through easy-to-use partner profile management, extensive and open B2B protocol support, and secure data transport. While eXchange Integrator includes pre-defined support for ebXML as well as other standards like EDI and AS2, eXchange Integrator is also the first B2B solution to provide open protocol extensibility, giving users the choice either to extend an existing open protocol to meet specific needs or to create and use their own specialized protocols.

eXpressway Integrator enables even the smallest trading partners to engage in B2B transactions with your Java CAPS-based applications. It provides a comprehensive implementation process, graphical configuration wizards, and partner downloadable connectivity software.

eTL Integrator is designed for unified, real-time and batch integration with performance equal to pure ETL tools. eTL Integrator, along with eGate Integrator, offers a comprehensive enterprise integration infrastructure. eTL Integrator is an enterprise module optimized for extracting, transforming, and loading bulk data between files and databases. It provides an ETL development and runtime environment that is both fully integrated into Java CAPS and optimized for handling very large record sets.

eVision Studio provides a graphical environment for the rapid design and generation of interactive composite web applications without requiring any programming, providing a page layout designer for creating web pages and a page flow designer for managing these pages within a composite application. eVision Studio creates the end-user business interfaces used within composite applications, workflow management, and business activity monitoring.

Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) is a business strategy that can identify actionable events based on combinations of real-time (or near real-time) business events across many different applications and other information resources. eBAM Studio provides configuration wizards that let business users define rules for BAM and relevant business key performance indicators (KPIs). It also provides a runtime environment for the execution of these rules and display components for graphical depiction of changes in the KPIs over time. The end result is the generation of a BAM composite application with end-user dashboards, reports, and alerts—all generated without any programming.

eView Studio uniquely identifies common records across disparate systems such as CRM, ERP, Billing, eCommerce and Customer Support systems. It uses data cleansing and matching technology to automatically build a cross-index of the various different local identifiers used to represent the same entity. This cross-index enables Java CAPS to seamlessly share information between these systems without requiring changes to every system. This enables rapid implementation of self-service portals, fully integrated call centers, and consolidated billing and account management systems for customers or unified order management across multiple inventory systems for products.

eView Studio provides application wizards that allow business analysts to rapidly design and generate these "single view" applications, a unique offering among enterprise integration vendors.

eWay Intelligent Adapters accelerate integration with web-service-enabled connectivity based on J2EE Connector Architecture (JCA). Sun provides over 80 standards-based eWay Intelligent Adapters that expose JCA and web services-compliant interfaces for application and business integration. Using these intelligent adapters, Java CAPS is able to seamlessly extend into a plethora of enterprise applications. eGate Integrator, eInsight Business Process Manager, and other Java CAPS products utilize these intelligent adapters to access disparate systems based on current distributed architectures and protocols such as: J2EE and .NET; legacy technologies such as CICS, CORBA and DCOM; and packaged applications like Siebel, SAP, and so on.

These eWay adapters accelerate integration and minimize development and maintenance costs through user-friendly, wizard-based discovery, configuration and deployment tools. Each eWay Adapter includes system-specific business logic and data validation, built-in messaging, and non-invasive connectivity. eWay Intelligent Adapters are built by Sun, providing organizations a single vendor solution with consistency across all adapters.

Adapter types include:

• Database access including relational (e.g. DB2, Oracle, etc.), hierarchical (e.g. IMS), network (e.g. IDMS) and file based (e.g. ADABAS, VSAM, etc.) data sources
• Packaged application adapters using native low level APIs to connect most efficiently (e.g. SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle, etc.)
• Communication adapters (e.g. SNA, TCP/IP, etc)
• Object oriented technology adapters (e.g. CORBA, Application Servers, etc.)
• Messaging (e.g. MQSeries, JMS, MSMQ, etc.)
• Web technologies (e.g. HTTP, CGI, etc.)
• Screen based integration (e.g. 3270, 5250, VT100, Wise, etc.)

Portal Server provides a new level of enterprise productivity, enabling users and groups to work together easily and securely within the requirements of a dynamic organizational structure. It ensures more rapid and cost-effective deployment of successful enterprise portals by delivering identity-based content to employees and partners -- increasing productivity by determining portal content depending on a user's identity-provisioned account. Portal Server provides end users with easy-to-use services that let them design customized community portals.

Enterprises can add compelling content and services to portal pages via custom development, with simple-to-use developer tools accessing web services or data repositories via a content management system, workflow management, and enterprise integration.

Application Server provides a platform compatible with Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE platform) 1.4 for developing and delivering server-side Java applications and web services. Application Server is available in three editions so you can choose to deploy the most cost-effective solution and upgrade from one edition to the next as your requirements change. The Java System Application Server integrates with Sun's Java developer tools: Sun Java Studio Enterprise, Sun Java Studio Creator, and NetBeans.

Web Server is a secure, reliable, easy-to-use web server designed for medium and large business applications. Available on all major operating systems, the Java System Web Server provides organizations with a single deployment platform for web services, JavaServer Pages (JSP) and Java Servlet technologies, Microsoft Active Server Pages, PHP, and CGI.

Web Proxy Server is a software product that collects data from the network, determines where that data should go, and distributes it accordingly. Acting as a network traffic manager, it reduces the number of requests to remote content servers and lessens network traffic. The result is that user wait times are lowered and network performance is boosted. Web Proxy Server also provides a secure gateway for content distribution and acts as a control point for Internet traffic, making communications managed by the product not only efficient, but secure.

Directory Server delivers a user-management infrastructure for enterprises that manage high volumes of user information. It integrates with existing systems and serves as a centralized repository for storing and managing user profiles and access privileges, as well as application and network resource information. Directory Server combined with Sun Java System Directory Proxy Server delivers a market-leading scalable, secure and reliable directory service.

Access Manager is a security foundation that helps organizations manage secure access to an enterprise's web applications, both within the enterprise and across business-to-business (B2B) value chains. It provides open, standards-based authentication and policy-based authorization with a single, unified framework. It secures the delivery of essential identity and application information by offering single sign-on (SSO) as well as enabling federation across trusted networks of partners, suppliers, and customers.

Java Studio Enterprise integrated development environment (IDE) is an award-winning tools platform that includes powerful features to speed development, such as UML modeling, instant collaboration, and application profiling. Built on the popular NetBeans IDE, Java Studio Enterprise offers all the functionality you need to develop, debug, tune, and deploy enterprise applications, web services, and portal components based on the Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE platform).

Java Studio Creator is an integrated development environment for rapid visual web application and portlet development. Like Java Studio Enterprise, Java Studio Creator is also built on the NetBeans IDE, and it includes such features as a set of JavaServer Faces components, support for building JSR 168 portlets, easy access to databases, a streamlined application model, and more. From novice to expert, anyone building web applications can benefit from the high-productivity features of Java Studio Creator.