Adapter development environments

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:

  1. Obtain computers that satisfy the hardware requirements for each of the required environments.

    For more information about hardware requirements, see Hardware requirements.

  2. Install the Adapter Framework as described in Installing the Adapter Framework.
  3. Install each data handler that will be required for the adapters you are developing as described in Installing data handlers.
  4. Install the Adapter Development Kit as described in Installing the Adapter Development Kit.
  5. Install a compiler appropriate for the language in which you will be developing the adapter:

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