You must prepare an adapter development environment in order to
create custom adapters. Although you can develop adapters in an
environment in which the broker is installed and adapters are
running, you can also use an environment that is dedicated
exclusively to adapter development.
Environment 4 in Figure 1
illustrates this type of environment.
Do the following to prepare an adapter development
environment:
- Obtain computers that satisfy the hardware requirements for
each of the required environments.
For more information about hardware requirements, see Hardware
requirements.
- Install the Adapter Framework as described in Installing the Adapter
Framework.
- Install each data handler that will be required for the
adapters you are developing as described in Installing data
handlers.
- Install the Adapter Development Kit as described in Installing the Adapter
Development Kit.
- Install a compiler appropriate for the language in which you
will be developing the adapter:
- If you will be developing the adapter in C or C++, install a C
or C++ compiler.
- If you will be developing the adapter in Java, install the IBM
Java Development Kit:
- It is assumed that if your operating system is AIX then you
already have the supported version of the IBM JDK installed.
- For information on installing the IBM Java Development Kit on
Windows, see Installing the IBM Java
Development Kit on Windows.
- For information on installing the Sun Java Development Kit, see
the Sun JDK documentation.
- For information on installing the HP Java Development Kit, see
the HP JDK documentation.
