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The external service wizard

Use the external service wizard to configure your adapter before it is deployed to IBM BPM or WebSphere Enterprise Service Bus. The wizard examines files on the local file system, builds services (based on search criteria you provide), and generates business objects and interfaces.

The external service wizard provides a blueprint for business objects. It allows you to select the artifacts of interest and generates deployable service objects and descriptions. By selecting meta-object nodes from the metadata tree structure, you can generate business objects for EIS or database entities. The metadata is transformed into service data objects consisting of business graphs and business objects.

The following figure illustrates the external service wizard flow. When finished, an EAR file containing all the information for your adapter project is created. This EAR file can then be deployed to the application server.

Figure 1. Basic external service wizard flow

Technical overview of the WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files