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Architectural Overview

Siebel Financial Services EAI architecture is built on top of Oracle's Siebel Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) architecture. Oracle's Siebel Financial Services EAI framework has been built to support XML messaging based communication infrastructure. Customers of Financial Services have the need to integrate with many different applications through messaging mechanisms. To fulfill this requirement, many connectors have to be built to support various industry standards.

Siebel Financial Services allows you to build and deploy multiple connectors. To demonstrate such flexibility, Siebel Financial Services Application has built three connectors—Siebel Connector for IAA-XML, Siebel Connector for ACORD XML, and Siebel Connector for IFX XML—all based on the Siebel Financial Services EAI framework.

Figure 1 illustrates the high-level architecture of the Siebel Financial Services EAI and the standard connectors.

NOTE:  For details, see Siebel Financial Services Enterprise Application Integration Guide.

Figure 1. High-level Architecture of Siebel Financial Services EAI

Siebel Connector for IAA-XML is built based on IAA-XML standards for insurance industry exchange and is designed to address the real-time requirement by defining transactions that include both a request and a response message. The Siebel Connector for IAA-XML provides functions such as:

• Handling message header
• Handling heterogeneous commands in the body section of an XML message
• Data type formatting and conversions
• Data model mapping through various modules

The Siebel Connector for IAA-XML modules include the FINS IAA Wizard, FINS IAA-XML Dispatcher, FINS IAA-XML Converter, FINS IAA-XML Data Transformation Engine (DTE), and FINS IAA-XML Transaction Manager.