This chapter describes the components of an adapter and how they work together to process business objects.
The WebSphere Business Integration adapters offer a basic communication interface into or out of the EIS for which they were developed. They expose business transactions to the integration server in a simple and consistent manner, and they rely upon the integration server to provide transformation, routing, and process logic.
This lightweight architecture simplifies maintenance and upgrades because the artifacts do not require code changes in the adapter, and the complexity of artifacts within the adapter is minimized. Furthermore, this architecture delivers a very small footprint, providing the flexibility to situate the adapter near or even on the target EIS for optimum performance.
The chapter contains the following sections: