The connector for Portal Infranet includes the following components:
The connector generates business objects that it sends to InterChange Server Express. The connector also responds to business object requests from InterChange Server Express. It generates logging and tracing messages that it writes to a file or the connector console, or sends to InterChange Server Express.
Figure 1 illustrates the architecture of the connector and its event mechanism in the Infranet application.
Figure 1. Connector architecture
The connector uses the Portal Communications Module (PCM) Java Class library as the API to interact with the Portal Infranet connection managers. The advantage of this architecture is that Portal Infranet supports the PCM Java class library on the Java virtual machine for Windows. This API is used by the business object handler in the connector to exchange information between the adapter, InterChange Server Express, and Portal. The WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Adapter event facilities module uses the C++ PCM Library.