Using WebSphere Business Integration Adapters
These adapters do not comply to either the J2C architecture or the Enterprise Metadata Discovery specification, yet can be used with the external service wizard.
The IBM® WebSphere® Business Integration Adapters
adapters do not comply to either the J2C architecture or the Enterprise
Metadata Discovery specification. To use the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters
to develop imports and exports, follow these steps:
- Right-click your module and from the menu, select New > External Service. Select Messaging in the New External Service wizard and click Next.
- Select WBI Adapter Artifact Importer. Continue with the wizard sequence completing the fields necessary for using a WebSphere Business Integration adapter.
The WebSphere Business Integration Adapter artifacts must first be created using the toolset provided with the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter Framework. Unlike the IBM WebSphere Adapters, none of these adapters are supplied for development purposes.
Some additional differences between the IBM WebSphere Adapters
and the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapters
include:
- WebSphere Adapters rely on standard JCA contracts to manage lifecycle tasks such as stopping, starting; WebSphere Business Integration Adapters rely on the WebSphere Adapter Framework to manage connectivity.
- With WebSphere Adapters, you use an external service wizard in IBM Integration Designer to discover an EIS system and its available information. The external service wizard develops business objects from the discovered information. WebSphere Business Integration Adapters use a separate Object Discovery Agent (ODA) to probe an EIS and generate business object definition schemas.
- An outbound service type in WebSphere Adapters is known as request processing with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters. An inbound service type in WebSphere Adapters is known as event processing with WebSphere Business Integration Adapters.
- WebSphere Business Integration Adapters always reside outside of an application server at run time. The server communicates with this type of adapter through a Java™ Messaging Service (JMS) transport layer.
To see a complete list of supported WebSphere Business Integration Adapters, go to WebSphere Adapters.
To use a WebSphere Business
Integration Adapter with a IBM Workflow
Server,
follow these steps:
- Migrate the artifacts used by the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter to those expected by the IBM Workflow Server.
- Install and configure the migrated application.