Design Time Tasks
At design time, the users of the adapter select the 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. The users of the adapter configure and initialize the run time components of the adapter. To do this, use the following Integration Server packages:
The
adapter package, which contains the adapter run time components as well as the ADK classes that you, the adapter developer, extend to produce the adapter implementation.
A
namespace node package, in which the users of the adapter create the adapter's namespace nodes for connections, adapter services, polling notifications, and listener notifications.
A namespace node (or node) is based on its corresponding Java classes. For example, a connection node is based on the Java connection classes created at development time.
Design time tasks include the following:
Create one or more namespace node packages.
Create and initialize namespace nodes for connections, adapter services, polling notifications, listeners, and listener notifications. The users of the adapter can place all the nodes of an adapter in one package, or distribute them among multiple packages.
Load the adapter package and namespace node packages into
Integration Server.
To perform these tasks, the users of the adapter require access to Integration Server, Designer, and a web browser.