WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software

Roadmap for installing, configuring, and deploying the adapter

Before you can use the adapter in a runtime environment, you must install, configure, and deploy it. Understanding these tasks at a high level helps you perform the steps that are needed to accomplish each task.

After successfully installing the WebSphere® Adapter, you configure it using WebSphere Integration Developer. You then deploy it as an enterprise archive (EAR) file to WebSphere Process Server or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. The following figure illustrates this flow of tasks, and the steps that follow the figure describe each task at a high-level. For detailed instructions on installing, see Installing IBM® WebSphere Adapters. For information about configuring and deploying the adapter, see the adapter documentation.

This image is described in surrounding text. The installing tasks are described in Installing IBM WebSphere Adapters. The configuring and deploying tasks are described in the adapter documentation.
Figure 1. Roadmap for installing, configuring, and deploying the adapter
  1. Installing the adapter
    1. Use the installer (a graphical user interface) or a script that runs a silent installation. Either method installs a resource adapter archive (RAR) file on your workstation. You use this RAR file to configure the adapter.
  2. Configuring the adapter
    1. (If required) Configure the enterprise information system (EIS) to work with your adapter. You perform this step from within the EIS application.
    2. (If required) Create an authentication alias to access the application.
    3. Create an adapter project in WebSphere Integration Developer (J2EE Perspective) by importing the adapter RAR file.
    4. (If required) Using WebSphere Integration Developer, add any external dependencies required by your adapter to the adapter project. These dependencies are also required as part of the bundled EAR file, which is exported when you deploy the adapter.
    5. To configure the adapter, run the enterprise service discovery wizard from the Business Integration Perspective of WebSphere Integration Developer. The enterprise service discovery wizard generates business integration components and allows you to enter all the information necessary to configure the adapter for the first time. The output from the enterprise service discovery tool is saved to a business integration module project, which contains the business object, or objects, and the import or export file.
    6. (If required) Use WebSphere Integration Developer to generate reference bindings for the component created by the enterprise service discovery wizard.
  3. Deploying the module
    1. From the J2EE perspective in WebSphere Integration Developer, export a business integration module project as an EAR file.
    2. Install the module on WebSphere Process Server or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus.
    3. (If required) In the server administrative console, set (or change) the following properties:
      • Resource adapter properties
      • Managed (J2C) connection factory properties
      • Activation specification properties for the EIS
Related tasks
Installing the adapter
Configuring the adapter for deployment
Deploying the module

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