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Technical overview of WebSphere Adapter for Lotus Domino

The adapter supports bidirectional exchange of business data between business applications and the Lotus Domino server. The adapter provides outbound and inbound processing under the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (JEE) Connector Architecture (JCA) and integrates with Service Component Architecture components.

The adapter provides the means for services running on IBM Integration Designer to exchange documents with one or more Domino servers. The services are contained in a module, which consists of both a project in IBM Integration Designer and a unit of deployment to IBM BPM. The module is packaged and deployed to IBM BPM as an enterprise archive (EAR) file.


Overview of the Domino products

The important constituents of the Lotus Domino suite of products are:


Lotus Domino server metadata

WebSphere Adapter for Lotus Domino interacts with the Lotus Domino server using the metadata constituents.

Overview of WebSphere Adapter for Lotus Domino