Architecture

Enterprise Enabler Server is a Microsoft based technology that integrates processes, applications, and data sources residing on Microsoft and non-Microsoft platforms.

.net Framework

Enterprise Enabler is built on the .net 2.0 Framework and leverages all the features and enhancements of the Framework. All of the features are also passed on to the end users of EE, allowing them to easily build plug-ins, reusable code snippets , business rules, process nodes and AppComms (see below). In addition, EE supports the reuse of any libraries written in .net/com outside of EE, so that they become reusable components accessible through the standard EE development environment.

AppComms

AppComm technology can be thought of as the next-generation of Adapters. It is the connectivity mechanism used by EE to communicate with various applications and data sources, regardless of the platform on which they reside AppComms are part of an architecture that decouples the knowledge of how to connect to a particular type of application or data source from the assumptions about the specific instance. An Adapter is a full integration in itself, with predetermined source, destination, and mapping. An AppComm, on the other hand is completely metadata driven and reusable in its "off-the shelf" form without any modification. The AppComm architecture is always streaming, and offers high speed native connectivity.

Metadata

All aspects of EE are metadata driven, so metadata is captured about applications and connectivity, about how data transformation should occur, and about business process workflow. External metadata is discovered and captured through intelligence built into each AppComm, and iInternal metadata is captured during integration development. The existence of metadata describing processes and integration allows for the computerized monitoring and management of change and its impact across the environment. All metadata is stored, encrypted and compressed, in SQL Server 2005.

Runtime Engine

EE's runtime engine is architected to take advantage of multiple application domains to isolate each process instance, and within each domain multithreading is utilized to further support parallel processing. The result is high performance and scalability, with robustness enhanced by isolation which greatly reduces potential for severe failure.