Adapter services enable you to connect to the adapter’s resource (that is the SOPERA infrastructure) and initiate an operation on the resource from Integration Server. Every invocation of a SOPERA service by other Integration Server services or Integration Server clients goes through an adapter service.

You call adapter services from flow services or Java services to interact with the SOPERA infrastructure. Integration Server uses adapter connections that you defined earlier to execute the adapter services.

Adapter services are based on templates provided with SOPERA Adapter. Each template represents a specific technique for doing work on a resource. 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 configure a new adapter service.

Configuring a new service from an adapter service template is straightforward. Using Software AG Designer, you assign the service a default adapter connection.

After you select the connection for the adapter service, you select the adapter service template and supply the data specifications, including the mapping of data types from the adapter to or from your adapter resource. You use Software AG Designer to configure the adapter service. Some familiarity with using Software AG Designer is required. For more information, see the webMethods Service Development Help.

SOPERA Adapter provides the following adapter service templates: