At development time, you write the Java classes that define the adapter. To do this, you extend base classes provided by the ADK to produce an adapter definition class and template classes for connections, adapter services, polling notifications, and listener notifications.

At design time, adapter users will select these template classes to configure namespace nodes. A namespace node is a run-time component containing information about how a connection, adapter service, polling notifications, or listener notifications should behave at run time.

At development time, you will:

Support for other development-time activities includes: