Before you begin, make sure you have created an adapter package to contain your adapter classes, as described in Creating an Adapter Package.

In your adapter package's main source code directory, you create an adapter definition by extending the WmAdapter base class. This class represents the main class of the adapter. In the example shown in Adapter Definition Implementation Classes, this class is MyAdapter. In this class, you create services and methods that:

The following sections describe the basic steps for implementing, deploying, and debugging an adapter definition. An example WmAdapter implementation class is presented in Example WmAdapter Implementation Class. Other chapters introduce more advanced techniques that make your adapter more manageable as you expand its functionality.