Adapter services allow you to connect to the IBM Power's resource and initiate an operation on the resource from Integration Server.

You call adapter services from flow or Java services to interact with IBM Power systems. The adapter services perform operations by calling IBM ToolBox for Java. Integration Server then uses adapter connections that you defined earlier to run the adapter services. For details, see Adapter Service Transaction Processing.

Adapter services are based on templates provided with webMethods Adapter for IBM Power. Each template represents a specific operation performed on a resource, such as using the Read DataQueue template to retrieve records from dataqueues in the IBM Power systems.

An adapter service template contains all the code necessary for interacting with the resource but without the data specifications. You provide these specifications when you create a new adapter service.

Creating a new service from an adapter service template is straightforward. You assign a default adapter connection when creating an adapter service. The default adapter connection associated with the adapter service at designtime is used to run the service unless specified at runtime.

After you select the connection for the adapter service, you select the adapter service template and supply the data specifications using Designer. Some familiarity with using Designer is required. For more information, see the webMethods Service Development Help for your release.

webMethods Adapter for IBM Power provides the following adapter service templates: