The Apama File adapter uses the Apama Integration Adapter Framework (IAF) to read information from text files and write information to text files by means of Apama events. This lets you read files line-by-line from external applications or write formatted data as required by external applications.

With some caveats, which are mentioned later in this section, the File adapter supports reading and writing to multiple files at the same time.

Information about using the File adapter can be found in the following topics: