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IBM CBConnector Cookbook Collection: CBConnector Bank User Guide

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IBM CBConnector Cookbook Collection: CBConnector Bank User Guide

This redbook is a user guide for installing and running the CBConnector Bank, which is a sample bank application developed for Component Broker Connector Release 1.2. The redbook is part of the International Technical Support OrganizationÆs (ITSO) IBM CBConnector Cookbook Collection.

Component Broker Connector (CBConnector) is a new member of the IBM Transaction Series product family that supports distributed object computing in a multitier environment. CBConnector provides a middle-tier application that allows Business Objects to be highly managed and integrated with back-end databases and transactional systems. Different types of first-tier clients can access the middle-tier Business Objects. The middle tier essentially includes middleware that provides clients with an object-oriented rendering of other middleware. In this regard, CBConnector is not a stand-alone product, but instead, is designed to work with existing resource managers that provide persistence, concurrency control, and other services needed in commercial computing environments.

CBConnector is composed of an industry-leading set of technologies that facilitate distributed object applications. As the only solution of its kind on the market today, it combines three critical dimensions:
Runtime
Systems Management
Development
Component Broker consists of two parts that support these three dimensions. CBConnector provides the runtime environment and supports systems management. The Component Broker Toolkit (CBToolkit) contains the tools that application developers use to define and implement the objects running on the middle tier.

CBConnectorÆs unique value lies in its ability to integrate and therefore leverage existing enterprise transactions and data. It will most often be used to extend existing business models.

We developed the CBConnector Bank as an application that demonstrates the capabilities of Component Broker Release 1.2. This application will grow to encompass new functionality of subsequent releases of Component Broker.

The application has three tiers: the client tier, the middle tierûwhich is the Component Broker serverûand the legacy tier, where a CICS application resides. We call this the legacy system in quotes because it is a newly developed system, one whose sole purpose is to act as a persistent store to the bank application. However, this tier would normally be an existing application to be integrated in the new, Object Oriented architecture that Component Broker represents.

The CBConnector Bank makes it possible to quickly set up a complete application at a customer site that shows how an end-user request at a client tier is handled by the Component Broker server at the middle tier, and passed to a legacy system on the legacy tier.

This redbook lists all the hardware and software requirements that have to be met to run the CBConnector Bank application. Then, it provides instructions on how to set up the Component Broker environment and install the CBConnector Bank with its three tiers. Finally, an application scenario is provided that presents an overview of the application functionality and architecture and suggests a banking scenario for an application demo.

Developers can use this book as a supplement to the CBConnector Bank Implementation redbook, so that they have a live example of the concepts described in the implementation book.

Sales support personnel can use this book to install and demonstrate a sample application at a customer site, with assistance from technical support professionals during the installation phase.
Price: $28.00 $22.00
Pages: 102
Date Published: September 2, 1998
ISBN: 0738400939
Author: IBM Redbooks
Product Number: SG24-5121-00
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