Overview of the adapter

This chapter describes the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for Exchange and the associated system architecture. The adapter is made up of a set of configuration and development tools, message files, and the connector, a runtime component that carries out the transfer of data to and from the integration broker.

The connector consists of an application-specific component and the connector framework. The application-specific component contains code tailored to a particular application, in this case, Exchange. The connector framework, whose code is common to all connectors, acts as an intermediary between the integration broker and the application-specific component. The connector framework provides the following services between the integration broker and the application-specific component:

This document contains information about both the application-specific component and the connector framework.

For more information about the relationship of the integration broker to the adapter as whole, see the IBM WebSphere Business Integration System Administration Guide(for WebSphere InterChange Server), Implementing Adapters with WebSphere Message Brokers, orImplementing Adapters with WebSphere Application Server.

The adapter for Exchange also contains a component called Event Listener. This component is a COM+ event sink application that runs on the same machine as Microsoft Exchange Server.

This chapter contains the following sections:

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