Adapter environment

Before installing, configuring, and using the adapter, you must understand its environment requirements.

Broker compatibility

The adapter framework that an adapter uses must be compatible with the version of the integration broker (or brokers) with which the adapter is communicating. The 1.0.x version of the adapter for EJB is supported on the following versions of the adapter framework and with the following integration brokers:

See Release Notes for any exceptions.

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

For WebSphere InterChange Server (ICS), see the System Installation Guide for UNIX or for Windows.

For message brokers (WebSphere MQ Integrator Broker, WebSphere MQ Integrator, and WebSphere Business Integration Message Broker), see Implementing Adapters with WebSphere Message Brokers, and the installation documentation for the message broker. Some of this can be found at the following Web site:

http://www.ibm.com/software/integration/mqfamily/library/manualsa/

For WebSphere Application Server, see Implementing Adapters with WebSphere Application Server and the documentation at

http://www.ibm.com/software/webservers/appserv/library.html

Adapter standards

The adapter is written to the EJB 2.1 specification and as such is compatible with a J2EE-compliant application server that is based on this standard, such as WebSphere Application Server, version 5.0.

The adapter supports entity beans and session beans. Message-driven beans are not supported in this release.

For information about EJB software architecture, see http://java.sun.com/products/ejb/

Adapter platforms

The adapter runs on the following platforms:

Adapter dependencies

The ODA for the EJB adapter requires the j2ee.jar file, which is delivered with the adapter.

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