It is also a full function, enterprise-class web server and can be used for financial applications development. It provides the platform requirements for building back-office and corporate electronic banking applications.

Basic Concepts ...

ClaritySwitch receives all incoming and outgoing SWIFT messages from the bank’s host systems using communications links such as IBM MQ Series or proprietary host links. 

Alternatively, a batch file containing SWIFT messages can be downloaded using the ClaritySwitch automated batch interface.

ClaritySwitch is a distributed “n-tier” application and its GUI offers access to "ClarityInfo", the Management Information System and the other ClaritySwitch applications, such as “MessageMaker”, “Billing” and “ClarityFlo”, for message routing, message control and workflow.

Features ...

• RDBMS Transaction Manager (dual commit, replication etc) ...

• paging on demand with scalable query management message archiving and retrieval (warehousing) store-and-forward processing real-time payments summarisation real-time duplicate message detection
  
  Complete XML Library for all SWIFT messages ...

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  Full Semantic and Syntactic validation of SWIFT messages ...
  API to validation engine
  
  Message Transformation Services ...
  API based transformation services, e.g. API calls: XML to FIN & FIN to XML
  
  Comprehensive message filtering and routing functionality ...
  GUI based administration of routing criteria content-based routing (any part of message or fields) message routing to exit points departmental printing based on routing results
  
  Message Delivery Services ...
  automated message deliveryto departmental mailboxes GUI based view and control of messages message forwarding to another department broadcasting facility to send msg to all departments (e.g. mt999) complete & print a message full audit history of actions performed on the message
  
  Long-term message archive in RDBMS database ...
  
  Supports multiple interfaces using MQ, File (AFT), Java API or direct SQL connectivity to database ...
  
  Output messages to PDF or MS Word ...
  
  Facilitates production system recovery by maintaining a real-time image of message data

ClaritySwitch Services ...

Core Application Services… This module includes the core processes such as software licensing, security management, session control and the data access layer.

Communications… The communications module handles the interfaces with the bank’s SWIFT Interface system or back-office hosts in real-time or file transfer mode.  It is a multi-threaded server application, capable of handling up to 32 simultaneous host connections with full session control and recovery.

Transaction Management & Archiving… This module authenticates each message for valid field syntax and determines the most efficient way of storing that particular message depending on the message type and auxiliary message information.  

Database Server…  The database server is a relational database management  system (RDBMS) for transaction storage and retrieval.  Messages are written to the ClaritySwitch database by the Transaction Database Manager and queried by the end-user applications via the Web Server.

Http & J2EE Servers… The Web server hosts the applications and publishes the web pages.  It also provides the “data access” lay

er to the database. 

Web Browser… The application interface (GUI) is presented to the User via a Web Browser, with a URL type access to the Web Server hosting the User application.  

Workflow Functionality...