The Apama Integration Adapter Framework (IAF) is a middleware-independent and protocol-neutral adapter tailoring framework. It allows easy and straightforward creation of software adapters to interface Apama with middleware buses and other message sources. It provides facilities to generate adapters that can communicate with third-party messaging systems, extract and decode self-describing or schema-formatted messages, and flexibly transform them into Apama events and, in the other direction, transform Apama events into the proprietary representations required by third-party messaging systems.