Terminology
To understand the adapter, you must know these terms:
- adapter
- The component in the WebSphere business integration system
that provides components to support communication between an integration
broker and either an application or a technology. An adapter always
includes a connector, message files, and configuration tools. It
can also include an Object Discovery Agent (ODA) or a data handler.
- adapter framework
- The software that IBM provides to configure and run an adapter.
The runtime components of the adapter framework include the Java
runtime environment, the connector framework, and the Object Discovery
Agent (ODA) runtime. This connector framework includes the connector
libraries (C++ and Java) needed to develop new connectors. The ODA
runtime includes the library in the Object Development Kit (ODK)
needed to develop new ODAs. The configuration components include
the following tools:
- Business Object Designer Express,
- Connector Configurator Express,
- Log Viewer,
- System Manager,
- System Monitor,
- Test Connector
- and, optionally, any Object Discovery Agents (ODAs) associated
with an adapter.
- Adapter Development Kit (ADK)
- A development kit that provides some samples for adapter development,
including sample connectors and Object Discovery Agents (ODAs).
- connector
- The component of an adapter that uses business objects to
send information about an event to an integration broker (event
notification) or receive information about a request from the integration broker
(request processing). A connector consists of the connector framework
and the connector's application (or technology)-specific component.
- connector framework
- The component of a connector that manages interactions between
a connector's application (or technology)-specific component and
the integration broker. This component provides all required management
services and retrieves the meta-data that the connector requires
from the repository. The connector framework, whose code is common
to all connectors, is written in Java and includes a C++ extension
to support application-specific components written in C++.
- connector controller
- A subcomponent of the connector framework used when the integration
broker in the system is the InterChangeServer. This subcomponent
interacts with collaborations, a feature of InterChange Server Express.
A connector controller runs within InterChangeServer and initiates
mapping between application-specific and generic business objects,
and manages collaboration subscriptions to business object definitions.
- integration broker
- The component in the WebSphere business integration system
that integrates data among heterogeneous applications. An integration
broker typically provides a variety of services that include: the
ability to route data, a repository of rules that govern the integration
process, connectivity to a variety of applications, and administrative
capabilities that facilitate integration.
- WebSphere business integration system
- An enterprise solution that moves information among diverse
sources to perform business exchanges, and that processes and routes
information among disparate applications in the enterprise environment.
The business integration system consists of an integration broker
and one or more adapters.
