Overview

This chapter provides an overview of the connector for mySAP.com and contains the following sections:

The connector for mySAP.com is a run time component of the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for mySAP.com. The mySAP.com 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 SAP applications.

A connector consists of an application-specific component and the connector framework. The application-specific component contains code tailored to a particular application. The connector framework, whose code is common to all connectors, acts as an intermediary between the integration broker and the application-specific component. The connector framework provides the following services between the integration broker and the application-specific component:

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

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