To use Adapter for Salesforce, you need to configure adapter services. Adapter services allow you to connect to the adapter's resource (that is, Salesforce.com) and initiate an operation on the resource from Integration Server.

You call adapter services from flow or Java services to interact with Salesforce.com. Integration Server uses adapter connections that you defined earlier to execute the adapter services. The adapter services invoke Web services in the Force.com Web services API.

Adapter services are based on templates provided with the adapter. Each template represents a specific operation you can perform against Salesforce.com CRM data, such as retrieving field values from records in a Salesforce object.

An adapter service template contains all the code necessary for interacting with Salesforce.com, but without the data specifications. You provide these specifications when you create a new adapter service. To do so, you assign an adapter connection to the service using Designer. Then select the adapter service template and supply the required data specifications.

For more information about working with services, see the webMethods BPM Task Development Help for your release.