thunderbolt technology

1. The middleware that
makes real time
integration a reality

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Contents
 What is Thunderbolt Integration Suite?
 How does Thunderbolt fit in with Web
services?
 Thunderbolt Business Process Modeler
 Thunderbolt Runtime Monitor
 Thunderbolt product summary

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What is Thunderbolt?
Thunderbolt Integration Suite is a full
middleware server infrastructure enabling
the design and implementation of
transactions between disparate systems
It enables the creation of applications
which utilize data from different systems
which will not naturally speak together.

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Thunderbolt makes disparate
systems talk to each other

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Thunderbolt
Functional Components

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Thunderbolt
Functional Components
 Transaction engine
– Handles all issues of persistency and
transactionality
 Business Process Modeler BPM
– A GUI for designing business process logic,
mapping and transformation
 Runtime monitor
– A GUI for configuration monitoring and
administration of the integrated system

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Thunderbolt
Functional Components
 Heartbeat monitor
– Checks the availability of connectors and transformers
– Communicates with the engine to start/re-start faulted
connectors
– Checks the run ability of transaction models
 Connectors:
– Enables transfer of data from one system to another
 Transformers:
– Manipulate and transform transactional data
 Node controllers:
– Maintains connector availability

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Thunderbolt Architecture:
Distributed and Open

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How does Thunderbolt fit in with
Web Services?
As an internet-based integration platform,
Thunderbolt is perfect as a front end or
back end of any web service
Thunderbolt brings the transactional logic
and integration pipe work required to
implement web services

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Thunderbolt makes web services
easy
 Thunderbolt takes care of all the work required in
developing logic, persistence, transactionality and
transportation in any integration project:
– Creation of the pipe work for physical transport of data
– Remote management of connectors
– Modeling of business processes, their logic and data
transforms
– Issues of persistency
– Issues of transactionality
– Issues of scalability and availability

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Business Process Modeler BPM
 Thunderbolt BPM is a powerful yet easy-to-
use component that facilitates design and
implementation of transactions between
disparate systems.

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Business Process Modeler (BPM)
Dynamically
configurable
connector
objects
Intuitive
mapping of
source fields
into business
object fields
Easy inclusion
of business
logic into
transactions
Automatic
generation
of
transaction
code

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Business Process Modeler (BPM)
 Uses an intuitive drag-and-drop transaction
design interface
 Dynamically generated transaction definition
language using TDL, XML or BPL
 Graphically specify business processes
– Graphically design business process flows
– Link business process to transaction flows
– Easy-to-use interface using a tree view

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Runtime Monitor
 Thunderbolt Runtime Monitor is a central
administration and configuration tool of the
entire integrated system.

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Runtime Monitor
 Show the system’s overall status
 Start/Stop the engine
 Manage and configure the system
 Manage node controllers
 Manage and configure connectors
 Manage and configure transformers
 View and recover failed transactions
 View transactions audit trail

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Runtime Monitor - Status
View overall
running status
of the
integrated
system
Check alarm
state in case
of system
failure
Start/Stop
the
transaction
engine

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Runtime Monitor - Configuration
Configure
the system
features
Email
administrator
on system
failure
View and
manage
business
processes
and
transaction
models

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Runtime Monitor –
Connector Management
View and
edit
connector
related
information
View
connectors
status
View
connectors
list

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Runtime Monitor –
Recovery Manager
View failed
transactions
and their
details
View data
and re-run
transactions
from various
recovery
points
View reason
for failure

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Thunderbolt Product Summary
 Thunderbolt a straightforward and complete toolkit,
ideal for the development of web services as a front
end or back end system.
 Some of Thunderbolt’s product highlights are:
– A runtime monitor console to configure and administer the whole system
– A drag and drop business process design console to define Business logic work
flow, mapping and transformations
– Full remote connector management including failure detection of components and
shutdown of affected business processes
– Start/Re-start/Shutdown of remote connectors
– Heartbeat monitoring of the complete infrastructure
– Rapid connector development library and toolkit
– Transaction Processing monitoring and resource management
– Auto load balancing
– Compliant with industry standards

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Contacts for Thunderbolt
 Info@softbolts.com