Overview

IBM Cúram Social Program Management connectors provide a way for a Cúram application to connect to other systems by means of JMS queues. For facade and process class operations with a stereotype of qconnector the generator will produce code that converts the operation parameter into a JMS message, places the message on a queue, and optionally waits for another message in response which is then converted back into a Cúram struct and returned to the caller.

For many operations, queue connectors can be implemented without writing any handcrafted code. It is also possible to customize connectors with the use of handcrafted code. You may wish to do this if:

• the default encoding of a datatype is not suitable for your purpose. For example, you may wish to encode dates in the form DD-MMM-YYYY instead of the default format of YYYYMMDD.
• your parameter struct is "complex". For example, it may contain a variable length field, or may aggregate another struct.