Connector components

The connector for Portal Infranet includes the following components:

The connector generates business objects that it sends to the integration broker. The connector also responds to business object requests from the integration broker. It generates logging and tracing messages that it writes to a file or the connector console, or sends to the integration broker.

Figure 1 illustrates the architecture of the connector and its event mechanism in the Infranet application.

Figure 1. Connector architecture

The connector uses the Portal Communications Module (PCM) Java Class library as the API to interact with the Portal Infranet connection managers. The advantage of this architecture is that Portal Infranet supports the PCM Java class library on the Java virtual machines for both Windows and UNIX. This enables the connector to run on both platforms. This API is used by the business object handler in the connector to exchange information between the integration broker and Portal. The WebSphere Business Integration Adapter event facilities module uses the C++ PCM Library.

Copyright IBM Corp. 1997, 2003