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.
Figure 1. Roadmap for installing, configuring,
and deploying the adapter
- Installing the adapter
- 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.
- Configuring the adapter
- (If required) Configure the
enterprise information system (EIS) to work with your adapter. You perform
this step from within the EIS application.
- (If required) Create an authentication alias to access the application.
- Create an adapter project in WebSphere Integration Developer (J2EE
Perspective) by importing the adapter RAR file.
- (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.
- 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.
- (If required) Use WebSphere Integration Developer to generate reference
bindings for the component created by the enterprise service discovery wizard.
- Deploying the module
- From the J2EE perspective in WebSphere Integration
Developer, export a business integration module project as an EAR file.
- Install the module on WebSphere Process Server or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus.
- (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
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