Description of Architectural Layers

A list of client components:

• Client Library

  A Client Library is provided as part of SSC. It is a Java package, which is supplied to assist third party applications to call SSC component methods.

  SSC provides an industry standard SOAP interface. The SOAP interface can be accessed using any standard client code but the SSC client library adds support for streaming large payloads.

  The diagram also shows how other client applications and libraries interact with SSC.

• Web Applications
  SSC uses Tomcat to host its SOAP service and to serve its web pages.

  Note: As of version 5.2.1 other applications are prevented from sharing/using the SSC Tomcat server, for security and stability. If other applications require the use of a Tomcat server you must install separate instances.
• Microsoft

  Microsoft IIS web applications interface SSC using the Microsoft SOAP client from, for example, VB Script.

• Connect

  The Connect layer provides the drivers, services, components, methods and schemas that SSC uses to interface with SunSystems. See Internals for further details.

• SunSystems

  The SunSystems application and database layer. The SSC component hierarchy (which defines the payload layouts) reside in the data dictionary; this is updated as part of the component installation.