This chapter describes the IBM WebSphere Business Integration Adapter for ESRI Spatial Database and the associated system architecture.
ESRI ArcSDE is a geographic information system (GIS) gateway to a number of industry-leading relational database management systems (DBMS). Using the ESRI ArcSDE 8.2 product, the integration broker or application can work directly with spatial data managed by a DBMS through a set of high-level application program interfaces (APIs). To facilitate transactions, the adapter communicates with the gateway using business objects in XML format.
This chapter contains the following sections: