The adapter environment

Before installing the adapter, you must understand its environmental requirements as described in the following sections:

Broker compatibility

This adapter runs with the WebSphere Business Integration Adapter FrameworkV2.6 and requires one of the following:

See the Release Notes for any exceptions.

Note: For instructions on installing the integration broker and its prerequisites, see the following documentation.

Adapter platforms

In addition to a broker, this adapter requires one of the following operating systems:

Note: All operating system environments require the Java compiler (IBM JDK 1.4.2 for Windows(R) 2000) for compiling custom adapters.

Processing locale-dependent data

The connector has been internationalized so that it can support delivery of double-byte character sets (DBCS) going into an interface that also supports double-byte character sets and to deliver message text in the specified language. When the connector transfers data from a location that uses one character code to a location that uses a different code set, it performs character conversion to preserve the meaning of the data.

The Java run time environment within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) represents data in the Unicode character code set. Unicode contains encodings for characters in most known character code sets (both single-byte and multibyte). Most components in the WebSphere business integration system are written in Java; therefore, when data is transferred between most integration components, there is no need for character conversion.

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