When you create user-defined packages, use the package management functionality provided in Software AG Designer and set the user-defined packages to have a dependency on the adapter package. That way, when the adapter package loads or reloads, the user-defined packages load automatically.

Keep connections for different adapters in separate packages so that you do not create interdependencies between adapters. If a package contains connections for two different adapters, and you reload one of the adapter packages, the connections for both adapters will reload automatically.

If the connections and adapter services of an adapter are defined in different packages:

A package that contains the connections must have a dependency on the adapter package.

Packages that contain adapter services must have a dependency on their associated connection package.

Integration Server will not allow you to enable a package if it has a dependency on another package that is disabled. Before you can enable your package, you must enable all packages on which your package depends.

Integration Server will allow you to disable a package even if another package that is enabled has a dependency on it. Therefore, you must manually disable any user-defined packages that have a dependency on the adapter package before you disable the adapter package.

You can give connections, adapter services, and notifications the same name provided that they are in different folders and packages.