24 Developing Web Services Using CICS, WMQ, and WMB
platforms—distributed servers and mainframes. Typical clients include the
following:
Web service requester
Java servlet or Enterprise JavaBeans™ (EJB™) running on a J2EE
application server
An application running on a Microsoft .NET environment
Web browser
Messaging Middleware - WebSphere MQ
In most cases, connections from a client will use a combination of the following:
• Internal adapters
• External connectors
• Standard IP-based protocols
An internal adapter is simply a program that accepts a request and converts the
data from an external format to the internal format used by the CICS business
logic. CICS Web Support introduced this concept with the converter program
DFHWBTTA. Using a ...