Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the connector for EJB and contains the following sections:

The connector for EJB is a run time component of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for EJB. The EJB Adapter includes a connector, message files, configuration tools, and an Object Discovery Agent (ODA). The connector allows the WebSphere integration broker to exchange business objects with enterprise beans that have been designed using the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) architecture and deployed on an application server. The connector does this by enabling business processes in the broker to pass data to one or more enterprise bean business methods and receive returned data. The adapter is unidirectional in that it provides request processing functionality only. It does not perform event notification.

A connector consists of two components: the connector framework and the application-specific component. The connector framework, whose code is common to all connectors, acts as an intermediary between the integration broker and the application-specific component. The application-specific component contains code tailored to a particular technology (in this case, EJB) or application. The connector framework provides the following services between the integration broker and the application-specific component:

This document contains information about both the connector framework and the application-specific component. It refers to both of these components as the connector.

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