Alliance Access Developer Kit (ADK)
The Alliance Access developer kit provides an Application Programming Interface (API), which gives access to various resources and services of Alliance Access. It allows tight integration of back-office applications and development of business add-ons for Alliance Access customers.
Tight integration of back-office applications and business add-ons do not fit with Swifts strategy to cater for lose integration with standardized and product-agnostic APIs. Give that Alliance Access Developer Kit is in maintenance mode since the of end 2023, developer licenses are not for sale anymore and Swift no longer certifies new ADK add-ons.
Table of contents
Contents
- Alliance Access run-time on any platform (AIX, RHEL and/or Windows)
- The API libraries (exclusively available in C programming language), samples, development guide to develop host adapter or Access plug-in software
- Alliance Access adapters and other optional components that are made available to end users, including IBM MQ, File and SOAP adapters
- Alliance Access Developer kit run-time and developer licenses
- Access to Swift developer support and knowledge base
- Entitlement to all Alliance Access releases and patches (available on Swift download center)
- The right to maintain an Alliance Access Add-on label for a given add-on that has the label already. Swift no longer certifies new add-ons.
Benefits
The Alliance Access developer toolkit is the perfect choice to develop add-ons for Access customers. It is a compelling tool to develop Anti Money Laundering (AML), watch and caution lists filtering and other crime prevention add-ons. It allows to monitor the messaging flows for reporting and audit purposes, and to deploy Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) utility.
Some partners leverage the ADK for operational purpose, to convert, enrich or repair messages for STP, to manage duplicates, to derive traffic statistics, to extract messages that need extra approval before being sent out, to archive database, to recover the Alliance system or to tightly integrate their applications, network service or middleware with Alliance Access.
The Alliance Access developer toolkit reinforces the internal security mechanisms of Alliance Access by minimising the risk of running "break-in" applications that can tamper with the system and by restricting the access of new components to the set of services which they officially claim to require.
Conditions
As of end 2023 the Alliance Access Developer Kit is in maintenance mode. This means that:
- developer licenses are not for sale anymore.
- Swift is not providing the related 5-day training package anymore, including not to customers that already have the license.
- It is not possible to register new ADK add-ons for the Alliance Access Add-on label.
