Virtel Web Integration was deployed at FINAREF, a major European lender, to issue SOAP requests from a CICS application and process the answer.
A COBOL CICS application named AMIA needed to call a client application named SIPS using TCP/IP and XML. SIPS is a Java StandAlone application hosted on a WebLogic server. FINAREF developed a J2EE application to serve as a portal between AMIA and SIPS. The portal presents SIPS to the mainframe as a Web Service for reusability. AMIA accesses the Web Service through Virtel Web Integration, which is used:
- For bi-directional SOAP request and response processing
- For COBOL/SOAP conversion
- As an outgoing HTTP server
