You must prepare an adapter development environment in order to create
custom adapters. Although you can develop adapters in an environment in
which the broker is installed and adapters are running, you can also use an
environment that is dedicated exclusively to adapter development.
Environment 4 in Figure 1 illustrates this type of environment.
Do the following to prepare an adapter development 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 Adapter Framework as described in Installing the Adapter Framework.
- Install each data handler that will be required for the adapters you are
developing as described in Installing data handlers.
- Install the Adapter Development Kit as described in Installing the Adapter Development Kit.
- Install a compiler appropriate for the language in which you will be
developing the adapter:
- If you will be developing the adapter in C or C++, install a C or C++
compiler.
- If you will be developing the adapter in Java, install the IBM Java
Development Kit:
- It is assumed that if your operating system is AIX then you already have
the supported version of the IBM JDK installed.
- For information on installing the IBM Java Development Kit on Windows, see
Installing the IBM Java Development Kit on Windows.
- For information on installing the Sun Java Development Kit, see the Sun
JDK documentation.
- For information on installing the HP Java Development Kit, see the HP JDK
documentation.
