Adapter services allow you to connect to, and initiate operations on, a Domino Server. Adapter services are based on a template provided with Lotus Notes Adapter. With Lotus Notes Adapter, an adapter service wraps a method you select from the adapter service template. These methods belong to the Java lotus.domino classes supplied by the Lotus Domino Toolkit for Java/CORBA, and are used to remotely execute methods on Domino objects. Lotus Notes Adapter supports a subset of the classes in the toolkit. The methods in the template are defined in an XML data file. For information about managing the XML data file, see Editing the XML Data File.

Lotus Notes Adapter provides adapter services that have been pre-configured to call each of the supported methods in the Java lotus.domino classes. These adapter services use a preconfigured adapter connection that serves as a placeholder for connection information. Also provided with Lotus Notes Adapter are built-in flow and Java services that wrap one or more of the adapter services. Integration developers use the flow and Java services in their integrations instead of calling the adapter services directly.

For information about the adapter services and how they are provided in Designer, see Built-In Services Reference. For information about the classes and methods provided in lotus.domino package, see the Lotus Domino Toolkit for Java/CORBA documentation.