0. VistA Integration Adapter (VIA)
August 11, 2015
By Joe McDowell
VIA Enhancement SharePoint:
VIA Application SharePoint

1. Benefits of using VIA vs MDWS Drawbacks of using VIA vs MDWS Questions
Discussion Items
Why VIA
What’s Different
How is VIA Deployed
Benefits of using VIA vs MDWS
Drawbacks of using VIA vs MDWS
Questions

2. Why VIA VIA Started as a pilot to migrate a .Net app to Java
Fix some security issue
Improve performance
Provide something that is easier to maintain

3. What’s Different Obviously it’s a Java application development
Runs using Weblogic on Linux
Uses Oracle for a database to track auditing
Single logical instance deployed
VIA is stateless
Recently added
Authentication for Consuming Application

4. How is VIA Deployed
2 Sites – always active

5. Benefits of using VIA vs MDWS
Performance significantly improved
Security improvements
Enterprise Application – 1 deployment

6. Drawbacks of using VIA vs MDWS
VIA is Stateless
Requires changes to your Consuming application
During Development – new requirements slower

7. Questions ?
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