Abstract: The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product for providing access to J2EE application servers from non-J2EE application clients. The method comprises: sending data from an application client to a staging area; sending a message from the application client to a J2EE application server, the message notifying the J2EE application server that data is available in the staging area and providing a name of an adapter that can retrieve the data from the staging area; obtaining the adapter using a Message Driven Bean, wherein the Message Driven bean retrieves the data from the staging area using the adapter; and inserting the retrieved data into a database of the J2EE application server using the Message Driven Bean.

Abstract: A composite, multi-tier SLA. A composite, multi-tier SLA can include two or more service offerings having both internal use only service level objectives and external service level objectives. The composite, multi-tier SLA further can include two or more SLAs combined into a single, composite SLA. Each of the SLAs can correspond to a specific one of the service offerings. Moreover, the SLAs in the composite SLA can have a hierarchical organization based upon dependencies between the service offerings. Notably, each of the SLAs can correspond to one of an outsourced service offering, an internal service offering and an external service offering. Additionally, at least one of the SLAs can expose an external service level objective of a corresponding internal service offering which has been redefined as an internal use only service level objective in an SLA at a higher tier in the hierarchical organization.