MFS SOA is integrated with the Enterprise Metadata Discovery (EMD) framework in Rational Application Developer to transform existing MFS-based IMS applications into J2C Java™ beans and J2C Java Data Binding classes. After you create a J2C Java bean, you can create Java EE artifacts, such as Java server pages (JSPs), Enterprise JavaBeans (EJBs), or web services, to embed the generated J2C Java bean. MFS SOA supports conversational MFS-based IMS transactions.
The MFS SOA wizard, which is integrated into the J2C wizards in Rational Application Developer, invokes the MFS SOA Importer to parse MFS source files and creates services for MFS-based IMS transactions. The MFS SOA wizard guides application developers in selecting the MFS Message Input Descriptor (MID) and Message Output Descriptor (MOD) and populating the service definition, including the XML schema for both input and output types. The service description and XML schema contains all the information required for the MFS Data Binding Generator to generate MFS J2C Java Data Binding files.

The MFS SOA support requires a development environment that is included in the following software:
The IMS TM resource
adapter is shipped with IBM Rational Application Developer
for WebSphere Software, Java Edition, and other Rational or WebSphere development environments that include Rational Application Developer, Java Edition.
The runtime environment consists of the following software: