The Common Event Infrastructure is an embedded technology within WebSphere Process Server to provide basic event management services.
The Common Event Infrastructure (CEI) provides functionality for generation, propagation, persistence, and consumption of events representing service component processes. A standard, XML-based format, the Common Base Event model, defines the structure of these events. Each type of event used by the server contains a number of standard fields specific to a given type of event. In some cases, it contains an encapsulation of the business object data that is being used by the service component at a particular event point.
IBM® WebSphere® Process Server uses events in the CEI almost exclusively to enable service component monitoring. You must configure the CEI server if you want to use event-related functions, but after that, you should not use CEI directly. Instead, use the existing services in WebSphere Process Server.
In WebSphere Process Server, a specially configured CEI Server -- which can be part of an existing process server or another server -- is used for all event-related services. You must first create and deploy several facilities that are used by the CEI Server, including an event database, a messaging engine, one or more enterprise applications, and a database driver.
For more information about Common Event Infrastructure, see Administering the Common Event Infrastructure.
Last updated: Thu 26 Oct 2006 10:30:05
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