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About Application Adapters

About Sun Adapter for SWIFTAlliance Gateway

SWIFTAlliance Gateway is a modular software package that is installed on top of the SWIFTNet Link (SNL) software, and is designed to enable application-to-application communication. Using the SWIFTNet interactive services, InterAct and FileAct, messages and files are typically exchanged between a customer application (client) and a central application (server) over the Secure IP Network (SIPN). SWIFTAlliance Gateway can handle large volumes of information and is therefore suitable for use with both client and server applications.

The subtopics listed here provide information about SWIFT Alliance Gateway and its Sun Adapter.

Introduction to SWIFTNet

SWIFTNet is a global business messaging network for secure connectivity between institutions that participate in the financial services industry. As such, SWIFTNet is designed to satisfy institutional community requirements for inter-operability of mission-critical financial software solutions.

SWIFTNet provides an assurance of infrastructure reliability, availability, access control, correspondent and message authentication, message integrity, and confidentiality, to business applications that are interconnected among a community of institutions. Optionally, SWIFTNet also provides non-repudiation support, message validation, store-and-forward, and role-based access control.

SWIFTAlliance Gateway

SWIFTAlliance Gateway is an interface product for SWIFTNet. It incorporates all the functionality of the SWIFTNet Link. Additionally, it provides several different connectivity and usability features for SWIFTNet users, providing solutions to a variety of system integration problems.

SWIFTAlliance Gateway is designed to concentrate traffic from multiple SWIFTAlliance WebStations. It provides a graphical user interface for the administration of the SWIFTAlliance Gateway and related SWIFTNet security administration functions.

SWIFTAlliance Gateway can serve as a message concentrator, receiving messages from various other applications for passage through SWIFTNet. It can receive these messages through host adapters, including a WebSphere MQ host adapter, for interfacing with business applications running on a variety of different types of computing platforms.

SWIFTAlliance Gateway Remote API

SWIFTAlliance Gateway Remote API (RA) is a software package that establishes a communication link with the RA Host Adapter component of SWIFTAlliance Gateway, either from a SWIFTNet application existing on a remote computer or from a SWIFTNet application existing on the computer where SWIFTAlliance Gateway is installed.

Using Remote API, applications developed to run directly on top of SNL software can use SWIFTAlliance Gateway transparently as a concentrator for their SWIFTNet traffic, thereby implementing the single window concept RA offers two sets of APIs: SWIFTNet Link specific, and SWIFTAlliance Gateway specific. Message flow, from an RA instance to SWIFTAlliance Gateway, is managed by the Remote API Host Adapter (RAHA), a sub-component of SWIFTAlliance Gateway’s Application Interface (AI).

SWIFTNet Messaging Services

SWIFTNet offers four messaging services, SWIFTNet InterAct, FileAct, Browse, and FIN. Of these four, the SWIFTAlliance Gateway specifically addresses FileAct and InterAct in client mode, with both Real Time and Store-and-Forward transfers.

SWIFTNet InterAct

SWIFTNet InterAct provides secure and reliable exchange of individual structured financial messages. SWIFT customers’ messaging requirements vary from customer to customer but also from message to message. SWIFTNet InterAct offers you a broad range of telecommunication modes.

Store-and-Forward Messaging

SWIFTNet InterAct’s store-and-forward capability is designed for messages that are destined for a large number of correspondents, many of whom may not be online at the time of transmission. It removes the uncertainty and inconvenience of worrying about whether or not your correspondents are on-line at the time you send the message. The message is delivered as soon as the recipient is ready to receive it. As a result, it provides an ideal way to send individual instructions, confirmations, and reports to large numbers of correspondents, some of whom may be in different time zones.

Real-Time Messaging

Real-time messaging offers a low-cost alternative to store-and-forward for messages which are destined for correspondents that are online at the time of transmission. As a result, it is ideal for sending individual instructions, confirmations, and reports to a few large correspondents, or for messages to market infrastructures.

SWIFTNet FileAct

SWIFTNet FileAct provides secure and reliable transfer of files, such as batches of structured financial messages or large reports. Typical applications include repetitive credit transfers such as pension or salary payments, securities value-added information and reporting, and regulatory reporting. SWIFTNet FileAct offers a variety of messaging modes.

Store-and-Forward File Transfers

SWIFTNet FileAct’s store-and-forward capability ensures that your correspondents receive your message whether or they are online at the time of transmission. Messages are delivered when the recipient is ready to receive it. Store-and-Forward is an ideal way to send individual instructions, confirmations and reports to large numbers of correspondents, some of which may be in different time zones.

Real-time File Transfers

Real-time messaging provides a lower-cost alternative to store-and-forward for files that are destined for correspondents that are online at the time of transmission. This makes it ideal for sending files to a few large correspondents or market infrastructures.

The SWIFT Alliance Gateway Adapter

The Sun Adapter for SWIFTAlliance Gateway (referred to as the SWIFT AG Adapter throughout this guide) enables the Sun Java™ Composite Application Platform Suite to communication with SWIFTAlliance Gateway 5.0.

The SWIFT AG Adapter is comprised of the following components:

In addition to the OTD, the SWIFT AG Adapter provides Connectivity Map and External System configuration for design time configuration.

SWIFT AG Adapter Features

The 5.1 SWIFT AG Adapter includes the following features:

SAGOutboundAdapter Object Type Definition

The Adapter provides a SWIFTAlliance Gateway specific OTD (Object Type Definition), which exposes methods, attributes, and configuration properties. When it is incorporated in a Java Collaboration, the SAGOutboundAdapter OTD allows you to build powerful business logic into your Projects.

The SAGOutboundAdapter OTD is comprised of the following nodes:

In addition to the OTD, the SWIFT AG Adapter provides Connectivity Map and External System parameters for design time configuration.