JCAPS - beginners' Guide

JCAPS : The first thing to know about this is ..

• JCAPS - Java Composite Application Platform Suite

The other Things we should know are:

• Whose product is this?
• Ans: This is a Product from Sun Microsystems Inc which is now acquired by Oracle. The Journey of JCAPS started with ICAN. ICAN is a product of Seebeyond and after Sun's acquisition of SeeBeyond, ICAN is transformed into JCAPS.
• What it does?
• Ans: JCAPS is an EAI tool which handles information exchange between two heterogeneous or homogenous systems. It also facilitates transformations and business rules to be applied on the data before the data is exchanged. Besides mere data exchange, JCAPS also provides various other facilities which we will discuss in detail later.
• What are the limitations?
• Ans: The very basic limitation is that its components are heavy. If the task is simple and straight forward and can be accomplished using plain java and xml, then it will be less efficient if we use JCAPS.
• What is the latest version in use?
• Ans:JCAPS 6
• Finally, How we should Use?
• Ans:This is a very small question that has an un-ending answer. So, lets start with a scenario and expand our understanding further.
• What are the prerequisite skills should the developer have to start working?
• Ans: JCAPS is a SOA based tool and JAVA is the language it uses for programming. So, basic understanding of SOA and Java are necessary. JCAPS is to make life easier with integration (infact any composite application suite) with use of SOA.

If these questions and their anwsers are clear to you, you can work on JCAPS comfortably. So, we would be discussing scenarios one after the other.

Basic components of JCAPS:

1. eGate Integrator
2. EBAM
3. E Insight
4. to be continued..

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