Overview
An adapter service defines an operation that the adapter will perform on an adapter resource. Adapter services operate like webMethods Integration Server flow services or Java services. Adapter services have input and output signatures, you call them within flow services, and you can audit them from the Integration Server's audit system.
Like a connection, an adapter service consists of a Java class component and a namespace node in which design time settings are stored in metadata parameters. Adapter services support the same basic metadata constructs supported by connections, as well as:
Additional data types.
More sophisticated widgets.
The ability to define the signature of the adapter service node.
This means that adapter users can specify what data to search for in the flow service pipeline when the adapter service is called, and what data to place in the pipeline during execution of the service. Using these signatures, you can link adapter services to other Integration Server elements as part of a total integration solution.
Software AG Designer provides facilities for adapter users to create, configure, and test adapter service nodes.