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Migration considerations for WebSphere Business Integration adapters

By migrating to WebSphere Adapter for JDBC Version 7.5.0.3, you have an adapter that is compliant with the Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (JEE) Connector Architecture (JCA) and designed specifically for service-oriented architecture.

WebSphere Business Integration adapter and JCA-compliant adapter use different Inbound event table. You must change to the new Inbound event table supported by the JCA-compliant adapter manually after the completion of migration.


Operations considerations

Several WebSphere Business Integration adapter operations are supported differently in WebSphere Adapter for JDBC Version 7.5.0.3.

You might need to provide additional development effort when you plan to use the following operations:

DeltaUpdate

The DeltaUpdate is not supported in WebSphere Adapter for JDBC.

You must use the ApplyChanges operation to implement delta processing of components.

RetrieveByContent

The RetrieveAll operation is supported in WebSphere Adapter for JDBC as an equivalent to the RetrieveByContent operation.


Application artifacts

Before running the adapter migration wizard, use the WebSphere InterChange Server migration wizard to generate the application artifacts for the WebSphere Business Integration adapter, including the business objects, maps, and collaborations. Then you can run the adapter migration wizard to update the adapter-specific artifacts such as the schemas and service definition files (.import, .export, and .wsdl) so that they are suitably converted into a format that is compliant with JCA.


Run the migration wizard in a test environment first

Because migrating from a WebSphere Business Integration adapter to WebSphere Adapter for JDBC might require changes to the applications that use Version 7.5.0.3 of WebSphere Adapter for JDBC, always perform the migration in a development environment first and test your applications before deploying the application to a production environment.

Migrating WebSphere Business Integration applications


Related concepts:

Migrating applications from WebSphere InterChange Server

Changes to the import, export, and WSDL files after migration

RetrieveAll operation

ApplyChanges operation


Related tasks:

Migrating application artifacts from WebSphere InterChange Server

Migrating adapter-specific artifacts