EntireX DCOM is a commercial implementation of Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

's Distributed Component Object Model

Distributed component object model

Distributed Component Object Model is a proprietary Microsoft technology for communication among software components distributed across networked computers. DCOM, which originally was called "Network OLE", extends Microsoft's COM, and provides the communication substrate under Microsoft's COM+...

 (DCOM) technology by Software AG

Software AG

Founded in 1969, Software AG is an enterprise software company with over 10,000 enterprise customers in over 70 countries. The company is the second largest software vendor in Germany, the fourth in Europe and among the top 25 globally...

 for the Windows, AIX, HP/UX, Solaris, Linux, AS/400, z/OS, z/VM, and BS2000/OSD platforms.

EAI with EntireX

Primarily an EAI

Enterprise application integration

Enterprise Application Integration is defined as the use of software and computer systems architectural principles to integrate a set of enterprise computer applications.- Overview :...

 product, EntireX allows integration with legacy systems (mainframes), package systems (e.g., SAP) and also with Web services. It enables communication amongst DCOM applications running on Windows and non-Windows platforms in a heterogeneous network. For instance, it enables a DCOM application running on a Windows machine to communicate with a DCOM application running on an AS/400 platform. A use of EntireX is to Web-enable a mainframe application (compared to using Screen Scraping).

EntireX is XML compliant and offers a GUI wizard-based application for building integration solutions.

Components of EntireX

There are 3 components of EntireX:

• EntireX Communicator, which enables communications with back-end systems, and can handle synchronous and asynchronous communication
• EntireX XML Mediator, which is primarily a router for XML messages
• EntireX Adapters, which provide adapters to integrate with both front-end (e.g., web servers, app servers) and back-end (e.g mainframe) systems

External links

1. EntireX Documentation
2. Software AG

3. This IDC paper contains an overview of EntireX architecture