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Before you begin

Before you begin to set up and use the adapter, you must possess a thorough understanding of business integration concepts, the capabilities, and requirements of the integration development tools and runtime environment you are going to use, and the environment where you are going to build and use the solution.

To configure and use WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files, you must understand and have experience with the following concepts, tools, and tasks:

• The business requirements of the solution you are building.
• Business integration concepts and models, including the SCA programming model.

• The capabilities provided by the integration development tools you use to build the solution. You must know how to use these tools to create modules, test components, and complete other integration tasks.

• The capabilities and requirements of the runtime environment you use for the integration solution. You must know how to configure and administer the host server and how to use the Process Administrative Console to set and modify property definitions, configure connections, and manage events.

Plan for adapter implementation

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