This chapter describes the IBM WebSphere Business Integration adapter for Exchange and the associated system architecture.
Connectors consist of an application-specific component and the adapter framework. The application-specific component contains code tailored to a particular application. The adapter framework, whose code is common to all connectors, acts as an intermediary between the integration broker and the application-specific component. The adapter framework provides the following services between the integration broker and the application-specific component:
This document contains information about the application-specific component and adapter framework. It refers to both of these components as the connector.
For more information about the relationship of the integration broker to the adapter, 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.
In addition to the adapter framework and the application-specific component, the adapter for Exchange 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: