Overview of the JText adapter

This chapter describes the JText adapter and its components. The adapter enables the InterChange Server Express integration broker to exchange business objects, files, or messages with other applications. The adapter enables the integration broker to communicate with an application by exchanging text or binary files. This connector facilitates integration of data with applications that lack an API.

Adapters consist of two parts: the connector framework and the application-specific component. The connector framework, whose code is common to all connectors, acts as an intermediary between the integration broker and the application-specific component. The application-specific component contains code tailored to a particular application. The connector framework provides the following services between the integration broker and the application-specific component:

This document contains information about the connector framework and the application-specific component. It refers to both of these components as the adapter.

Topics included in this chapter are:

For more information about the relationship of the integration broker to the connector, see the System Administration Guide.

Use the JText adapter when:

In these cases, the simplest method for integrating an application into a larger system may be by exchanging string or binary files through the JText connector.

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