WebSphere Adapter for Siebel Business Applications

Introduction to WebSphere Adapters

IBM WebSphere Adapters make it possible for Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE) components, such as new e-business applications, to communicate with resources on an enterprise information system (EIS). An EIS is the information infrastructure for an enterprise (for example, an enterprise resource planning [ERP] system).

A WebSphere adapter acts as an intermediary between the J2EE component and the EIS, so that the J2EE component does not need to understand the low-level API or data structures of the EIS.

WebSphere Adapters can be one of two types: application or technology.
  • Application adapters connect to existing packaged applications (such as SAP Software, Siebel, PeopleSoft Enterprise, and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne) so that you can make use of data and services specific to the applications.
  • Technology adapters provide connectivity to data through such technologies and protocols as relational databases, flat files, e-mail messages, and FTP.
As part of the WebSphere family of products, WebSphere Adapters work with WebSphere Integration Developer and either WebSphere Process Server or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus.
  • WebSphere Integration Developer is the tooling environment for the WebSphere adapters.

    You use WebSphere Integration Developer to assemble a module that is deployed on WebSphere Process Server or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. From within WebSphere Integration Developer, you import the adapter (which is packaged as a resource adapter [RAR] file) and connect to the EIS. The enterprise service discovery wizard of WebSphere Integration Developer looks for data and services on the EIS and creates the interface information needed to gain access to the data and services. Finally, WebSphere Integration Developer generates a module that includes the adapter and the interface information.

  • WebSphere Process Server or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus is the runtime environment for the WebSphere adapters.

    You deploy the module generated by WebSphere Integration Developer to one of the servers.

The generation and deployment of the module is illustrated in the following figure.
Figure 1. How a module is generated and deployed
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