Connectors

A connector mediates interactions between an EIS and the integration server over the network. It can be specific to an application -- such as SAP R/3, Version 4 -- or to a data format or protocol, such as XML over HTTP. All connectors share certain common behaviors, differing only in the manner in which they interact with applications and with business objects.

Each connector consists of two parts -- the adapter framework and the application-specific component (shown in Figure 1).

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