Adapter notifications notify your webMethods system whenever a specific event occurs on an adapter's resource. The adapter notification publishes a document when the specified event occurs on the resource. For example, if you are using the Adapter for JDBC and a change occurs in a database table that an adapter notification is monitoring, the adapter notification publishes a document containing data from the event and sends it to Integration Server. Each adapter notification has an associated publishable document type. Integration Server assigns this document type the same name as the adapter notification but appends “PublishDocument” to the name.

You can use triggers to subscribe to the publishable document types associated with adapter notifications. The service associated with the publishable document type in the trigger condition might perform some additional processing, updating, or synchronization based on the contents of the adapter notification.