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5250 Connect Users Guide
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About exteNd Composer Connects
exteNd Composer is built upon a simple hub and spoke architecture (Fig.1-1). The
hub is a robust XML transformation engine that accepts requests via XML
documents, performs transformation processes on those documents and interfaces
with XML-enabled applications, and returns an XML response document. The
spokes, or Connects, are plug-in modules that "XML- enable" sources of data that
are not XML-aware, bringing their data into the hub for processing as XML.
These data sources can be anything from legacy COBOL/applications to Message
Queues to HTML pages.
Figure 1-1