What are WebSphere Business Integration adapters?

The WebSphere Business Integration adapters consist of a collection of software programs, application programming interfaces (APIs), and tools you can use to enable applications to exchange business data through an integration broker. Each business application requires its own application-specific adapter to participate in the business integration system.

Each adapter in WebSphere Business Integration adapters portfolio includes:

A separately-available Adapter Development Kit (ADK) provides a framework for developing custom adapters in cases where a prebuilt connector for a particular legacy or specialized application is not available from IBM.

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