WebSphere Adapters and WebSphere Business Integration Adapters

An IBM WebSphere Adapter runs on WebSphere Process Server and implements the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) Connector Architecture (JCA), version 1.5. WebSphere Business Integration Adapters are not JCA-compliant and run outside of the application server.

Figure 1. WebSphere Adapter

Fully JCA compliant, WebSphere Adapters run on WebSphere Process Server as shown in Figure 1. WebSphere Adapters, also known as resource adapters or JCA adapters, implement contracts that manage interactions between Enterprise Information Systems (EISs) and J2EE components running on application servers.

Figure 2. WebSphere Business Integration Adapter

As shown in Figure 2, WebSphere Business Integration Adapters are distributed. They reside outside of the application server. The server, or integration broker, communicates with this type of adapter via a Java Messaging Service (JMS) transport layer.

Other differences between WebSphere Adapters and WebSphere Business Integration Adapters include the following:

Parent topic: Product overview

Related concepts
Introduction
Audience
IBM WebSphere Adapters
Differences between adapters
What is the Enterprise Metadata Discovery tool?
How the adapter works
Locale and globalization support

Related reference
Adapter environment: general
Adapter environment: adapter specific

Related information
Task roadmap: IBM WebSphere Adapter for Flat Files Software


Copyright IBM Corp. 2003, 2005 |