This chapter was an overview of connectors and how they work. The
key points to remember are:
- Connectors have two main roles. These are notifying collaborations
about application events and carrying out application requests on behalf of
collaborations.
- In its event notification role, a connector interacts with the application
to detect changes in the application and process the data associated with
those changes.
- In its role as the implementor of collaboration requests, a connector uses
unique functions that implement each business object verb that the connector
supports.
- When a connector agent constructs a business object from an application
event or deconstructs a business object to create an application request, the
connector agent is driven by the application-specific information and other
metadata in the business object definition.
The next chapter goes into more detail about how mapping works.
