Adapter environment

Before installing, configuring, and using the adapter, you must understand its environment requirements as described in the following sections:

Broker compatibility

The adapter framework that an adapter uses must be compatible with the versions of the integration brokers with which the adapter is communicating. Version 1.1 of the adapter for Exchange is supported on the following adapter framework and with the following integration brokers:

See the Release Notes for any exceptions.

Note:
For instructions on installing the integration broker and its prerequisites, see the following documentation. For WebSphere InterChange Server (ICS), see the System Installation Guide for UNIX or for Windows. For message brokers (WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker, WebSphere MQ Integrator, and WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker), see Implementing Adapters with WebSphere Message Brokers, and the installation documentation for the message broker. Some of this can be found at the following Web site:

http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/mqfamily/library/manualsa/.

For WebSphere Application Server, see Implementing Adapters with WebSphere Application Server and the documentation at http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/library.html.

Installation prerequisites

You must have the following software installed and configured on the machine on which you plan to install the connector:

Note that this guide discusses only the installation of the adapter. Refer to the appropriate product documentation when installing any of the prerequisite software listed in this section.

Installing the adapter and related files

For information on installing WebSphere Business Integration adapter products, refer to the Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Integration Adapters, located in the WebSphere Business Integration Adapters Infocenter at the following site:

http://www.ibm.com/websphere/integration/wbiadapters/infocenter

Processing locale-dependent data

The connector has been internationalized so that it can support delivery of double-byte character sets (DBCS) going into an interface that also supports double-byte character sets, and deliver message text in the specified language. When the connector transfers data from a location that uses one character code to a location that uses a different code set, it performs character conversion to preserve the meaning of the data.

The Java run time environment within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) represents data in the Unicode character code set. Unicode contains encodings for characters in most known character code sets (both single-byte and multibyte). Most components in the WebSphere business integration system are written in Java; therefore, when data is transferred between most integration components, there is no need for character conversion.

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