Use the enterprise service discovery wizard to set the connection
properties necessary to enable communication with the enterprise information
file system. Once communication is established between the two entities, the
enterprise service discovery wizard can obtain the necessary metadata from
the enterprise information file system.
Before you begin
Before you can
set the connection properties in this section, you must have created your
adapter project. In addition, WebSphere
® Integration Developer must
be running in order to complete this task.
About this task
Specify the connection
properties that the enterprise service discovery wizard uses to communicate
with the enterprise information system and discover its business objects and
services.
To specify the connection properties for the
enterprise service discovery wizard, use the following procedure.
How to perform this task
- From the WebSphere Integration Developer window, switch
to the Business Integration perspective.
- Select from the
menu bar. All perspectives are displayed.
- Select the Business Integration perspective.
- Right-click the frame of the Business Integration perspective window
and select . If Enterprise Service
Discovery is not visible, select Other from
the bottom of the menu. Then, in the Select a wizard window,
expand the Business Integration folder, select Enterprise
Service Discovery, and click Next.
- In the Select an Enterprise Service Resource Adapter window,
select IBM WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files (version 6.0.2) Connector
Project and click Next.
- In the Configure Settings for Discovery Agent window,
specify the properties used to discover the business data and the data binding
used at run time. Data binding converts unstructured data into
a business object. The properties specified in this task are
optional and enable the data transformation framework functionality in the
adapter. If the values of these properties are empty, the enterprise service
discovery wizard treats creates a pass through scenario without data transformation.
To
enable data transformation, use the following procedure.
- In the Folder name field, browse to the
location where your XSD schemas for the business objects are stored.
- Optional: In the Character Set field,
type the encoding the adapter uses to write files. By default,
the value of this property is empty.
Note: If the contents of the file are
in English, you do not need to select a Character Set. However, if the file
content requires certain encoding, then you must select that particular value
from the Character Set list in order for the adapter to use that particular
encoding while writing to the enterprise information file system.
- From the Content Type list, select the
format to be used for all business objects. This is a one time
setting and is used to bundle a content type with a corresponding data binding.
- In the DataBindingType field, accept
the default value, XMLBOSerializerDataBinding. This is the name
of the data binding corresponding to the content type.
Note: The DataBindingType field
is automatically populated based on the value selected for the Content
Type field. If the value of the Content Type property is empty,
the DataBindingType property does not display.
Figure 1. The Configure Settings for Discovery Agent window
- Optional: To configure additional business object properties,
select the Specify BO Properties check box. If this
is selected, a window will display later in the Configure objects window.
This is where individual business object properties can be defined.
- Optional: To enable bidirectional transformation, select
the Bidi transformation check box. Enabling
this property automatically selects the Select Bidi Symmetric Swapping check
box.
Note: If the enterprise information system supports a bidirectional
format other than the Windows standard bidirectional format, then you will
need to make appropriate changes to the properties below.
- From the Bidi ordering schema list, select the text orientation
bidi parameter.
- From the Text direction list, select the text direction
bidi parameter.
- From the Bidi Shaping list, select the Arabic shaping
bidi parameter.
- From the Bidi numeric shaping list, select the Arabic
numeric shaping bidi parameter.
- Optional: To set the logging level so that you can
see errors during configuration, use the following procedure. Required
fields are marked with an asterisk (*).
- Click Show Advanced.
- In the Log file output location field, type the path
of the log file.
- From the Logging Level list, select the level of logging.
- Click Next.
Result
The connection properties
that the enterprise service discovery wizard uses to communicate with the
enterprise information system are set.
What to do next
Use the enterprise
service discovery wizard to view and select objects and services on the enterprise
information file system for use in configuring the adapter.