Document Outline

• Contents
• WebSphere Adapter Toolkit
  • IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit technology overviews
    • IBM WebSphere Adapters
    • Architectural overview
    • How metadata is used at build time and run time
    • Using Enterprise Metadata Discovery to build services
  • IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit overview
    • New Connector Project wizard overview
    • Resource Adapter Deployment Descriptor Editor overview
    • Adapter Foundation Classes overview
  • IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit tasks
  • IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit installation requirements
  • Samples overview
    • Running the Twine Ball sample using WebSphere Integration Developer
      • Import the samples code
      • Run external service discovery for outbound processing
      • Run external service discovery for inbound processing
      • Modify the module
      • Test the sample
    • Running the Twine Ball sample using Rational Application Developer
      • Import the samples code into Rational Application Developer and modify the sample for use
      • Test the sample using the universal test client
    • Troubleshooting the samples
  • Using the New Connector Project wizard
    • Launching the New Connector Project wizard
    • Specify project properties
    • Specify project facets
    • Specify connector project module settings
    • Specify resource adapter properties
    • Specify generation options
    • Generating an IBM WebSphere Resource Adapter
      • Generating outbound adapter classes
      • Generating inbound adapter classes
      • Generating enterprise metadata discovery classes
      • Generating data binding classes
    • Generating a JCA resource adapter
      • Generating outbound JCA adapter classes
      • Generating inbound JCA adapter classes
      • Generating JCA enterprise metadata discovery classes
    • Generated code and deployment descriptor
  • Using the Resource Adapter Deployment Descriptor editor
    • Displaying the deployment descriptor
      • Using the Overview pane
      • Using the Resource Adapter pane
      • Using the Outbound Adapter pane
      • Using the Inbound Adapter pane
    • Modifying deployment descriptor properties
      • Generated bean properties
    • Editing deployment descriptor source
  • Implementing code from the IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit
    • Foundation Classes implementation overview
    • Data model
      • Relationship of business objects to service data objects
      • After-images versus deltas
      • Verbs
      • Verbs versus operations
      • Business object standards
    • Inbound event notification
      • Using the IBM WebSphere Foundation Classes for inbound event notification
      • Assured once-and-once-only event delivery
      • Implementing an event store in the EIS
      • Implementing event retrieval in the adapter
      • Possible event store implementations
    • Inbound callback event notification
      • Request and response callback events
      • One way callback events
      • Using the IBM WebSphere adapter foundation classes for inbound callback event processing
      • Callback event sender
      • Callback event processing for basic delivery
      • Callback event processing for event delivery with XA transaction
      • Callback event processing for event recovery
    • Outbound support
      • Application sign-on
      • Implementing outbound support
      • Implementing transaction support
      • Using command patterns
    • Data and metadata
    • Enterprise Metadata Discovery general interfaces and implementation for application adapters
      • Types of enterprise metadata
      • Enterprise metadata discovery architecture
      • Metadata discovery
      • Metadata discovery adapter type
      • Metadata discovery connection type
      • Enterprise metadata discovery description APIs
      • Business object structures for enterprise metadata discovery
      • Namespace definition
      • Implementing enterprise metadata discovery classes
      • Enterprise metadata discovery implementation samples
    • Enterprise Metadata Discovery interfaces and implementation for technology adapters
      • Building configurable artifacts (data bindings, data handlers, and function selectors)
      • Implementing Enterprise Metadata Discovery to build an interface
    • Structured record implementation
      • Initialize input method
      • Initialize output method
      • Set managed connection method
      • Get next method
      • Clone method
      • Close method
      • Extract method
    • Data binding implementation
    • Bidirectional language support
    • Problem determination
      • Fault handling support
      • Logging and tracing messages
      • Monitoring and measuring performance
      • Exception messages
      • Changing the Java logging API settings
  • Validating the code
    • Testing enterprise metadata discovery (EMD) of the adapter
    • Testing the adapter in unmanaged mode
      • JUnit: an open source framework for unit testing
      • Developing JUnit tests
    • Testing the adapter in managed mode
      • Testing outbound functionality
      • Saving business object data
      • Using an execution trace
      • Testing inbound functionality
    • Validating code with Rational Application Developer and WebSphere Application Server
  • Creating and exporting a resource adapter
  • Reference
    • Terminology
• Notices
  • Programming interface information
  • Trademarks and service marks
• Index
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