Data Transformation Engine Getting Started

Chapter 1 - Introduction
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With Mercator’s E-Business Broker Suite, you can configure your environment with multiple servers at
multiple sites, each server running on the same platform or different platforms. Or, you can select one
server on one platform as your transformation server. For example, you can develop a Mercator map
that includes all the information about how to map your company’s data. Then, this map can be
provided to another user in your company, perhaps at a different site. This map can then be run with
another server. The distributed user does not have to know anything about your development
environment.
In the enterprise environment, Mercator’s E-Business Broker Suite provides a variety of server
components, allowing for the perfect fit for your environment.
♦ An Event Server is a multi-threaded transformation server that triggers maps based on events and
uses the control information generated by Mercator’s E-Business Broker Suite’s workflow
management tool, the Integration Flow Designer.
♦ The Java API is an SDK application programming interface that allows for tight integration of map
execution into your own Java applications.
♦ A Component Server that allows access to maps via the Enterprise JavaBean API and Java Servlets.
♦ A Command Server offers a command line interface for map execution.
♦ The Platform API is an SDK application programming interface that allows for tight integration of
map execution into your own applications, including those created by development tools such as
C
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, Visual Basic, and PowerBuilder.
Execution on Multiple Platforms
Mercator maps are portable to a wide selection of different execution platforms. A map is defined once,
using the Mercator Design Studio, and that same map can execute on any of the popular platforms that
Mercator’s E-Business Broker Suite supports.