This chapter describes the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for WebSphere Commerce.
The adapter enables the IBM WebSphere Integration Server adapter to exchange messages with WebSphere Commerce, Business Edition, version 5.4 with Fixpack 2, or or 5.5. The topics included in this chapter include:
WebSphere Commerce software is a flexible platform for fulfilling a variety of commerce integration roles. The adapter for WebSphere Commerce can be used in a solution that uses the integration broker to integrate business data exchanges between WebSphere Commerce and other enterprise information system applications for which appropriate adapters have been installed.
Connectors consist of an application-specific component and the connector framework. The application-specific component contains code tailored to a particular application. The adapter framework, whose code is common to all adapters, 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 adapter framework and the connector. It refers to both of these components as the adapter. For more information about the relationship of the integration broker to the adapter, see the IBM WebSphere InterChange Server System Administration Guide.