The diagram shows how a typical adapter implements the connection classes.

At design time, each connection factory in an adapter implementation constitutes a connection type on the adapter's administrative interface. For a connection factory to be recognized as part of the adapter, you must specify the class in the fillAdapterTypeInfo method in the adapter's WmAdapter implementation class (see Registering Connection Factories in the Adapter).

For more information about how Integration Server uses connection classes at design time to support the creation and management of connection namespace nodes, see Connection Class Interactions.