Adapter Toolkit


WebSphere Adapter Toolkit

The IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit provides the development tools, libraries, and sample code to assist you in creating JCA resource adapters.

With the toolkit, you can create either of the following adapter types:

Implementing a WebSphere adapter allows you to take advantage of the quality of services offered in the WebSphere Adapter Foundation classes (AFC) and the flexibility to deploy the adapter on run time environments other than IBM Business Process Manager.

In either case, the toolkit provides a project creation wizard that generates the code that you then implement. In addition, the toolkit provides a specialized editor that facilitates the task of creating and configuring a resource adapter deployment descriptor.

This document focuses primarily on development of resource adapters and artifacts that extend the WebSphere Adapter Foundation Class library.

The following figure illustrates the process of developing a JCA resource adapter using WebSphere Adapter Toolkit.

Use the WebSphere Adapter Toolkit

The development process using IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit includes the following as shown in the illustration:

  1. Run the New JCA Resource Adapter Project wizard.

    The wizard generates a resource adapter deployment descriptor and code. The code includes sequence of calls, log and trace messages, and comments.

  2. Use the Resource Adapter Deployment Descriptor Editor to configure the deployment descriptor.
  3. Implement the code to correctly interface with your Enterprise Information system (EIS).
  4. Export the resource adapter as a Resource Adapter Archive (RAR), or Enterprise Application Archive (EAR) file.


The purpose of this documentation

To integrate an adapter development requires some amount of customization, depending on customer requirements. The process of integrating adapter functionality into your business processes requires you to design, build, and test the solution that uses the adapter. WebSphere Adapter Toolkit documentation helps you to understand the architecture requirements, and provide guidance to implement the various facets of the toolkit, for specific requirements.

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IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit technology overview

IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit helps developers implement the Adapter Foundation Classes, which establish a WebSphere Adapters standard for building resource adapters that conform to the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (JEE) Connector Architecture (JCA) 1.5 specification.