You must prepare a remote adapter environment to enable an adapter to
exchange data with the integration broker across the boundaries of the
network. This is common when a company must exchange business data with
trading partners.
Environment 3 in Figure 1 illustrates this type of environment, where the adapter is
enabled to communicate with the broker over the internet.
Do the following to prepare a remote adapter environment:
- Obtain computers that satisfy the hardware requirements for each of the
required environments.
For more information about hardware requirements, see Hardware requirements.
- Install the WebSphere MQ client as described in the WebSphere MQ
documentation. Be sure to install the Java Messaging feature.
The supported version of the WebSphere MQ client is listed in Table 5.
- Install and configure WebSphere MQ Internet pass-thru as described in Distributing connector agents across networks.
- Do the following depending on your integration broker:
- If your integration broker is WebSphere Application Server or one of the
supported messaging brokers, do the following:
- Install the Adapter Framework as described in Installing the Adapter Framework.
- Read the chapter named "Installing and configuring the connector"
in the guide for each adapter you plan to install in the environment and
determine any data handler requirements for the environment.
- Install each data handler required for the environment as described in Installing data handlers.
- Install each adapter required for the environment as described in Installing adapters.
- If your integration broker is WebSphere InterChange Server, do the
following:
- Run the installer for WebSphere InterChange Server on the distributed
computer to install the proper version of the Adapter Framework on it.
When the InterChange Server Configuration Wizard is presented, specify the
same configuration values as those specified when installing InterChange
Server on the broker host computer.
For more information on installing WebSphere InterChange Server, see the
System Implementation Guide for Windows or the System
Implementation Guide for UNIX.
- Note:
- You should not start this instance of InterChange Server. You are only
installing it to install a compatible version of the Adapter Framework on the
adapter host computer.
- Apply any patches that have been applied to the InterChange Server host
computer to the distributed computer so that the broker and adapter
environments are running at the same patch level.
- Install the adapter as described in Installing adapters on the distributed computer.
At the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server screen, specify the name of the
InterChange Server instance on the broker host computer, rather than the name
of the InterChange Server instance you installed on the adapter host computer
(which you had to install to install the Adapter Framework on the
computer).
- Import the connector definition created in the repository
directory into your development environment as described in the
Implementation Guide for WebSphere Interchange Server.
- Configure the connector as described in the guide for the adapter.
- Deploy the connector to the InterChange Server repository as described in
the Implementation Guide for WebSphere Interchange Server.
- Perform any adapter-specific installation steps, such as installing the
application client on the adapter host computer, as described in the guide for
each adapter required in the environment.
