WebSphere Business Integration Adapters: An Adapter Development and WebSphere Business Integration Solution

150 WebSphere Business Integration Adapters

10.1 Overview of adapter deployment

There are number of considerations that affect the decision about where to

deploy a specific adapter. The local installation is considered to be the most

typical and easiest to maintain, particularly when you are developing and testing

interfaces, because all the components in the business integration system are

installed on a single computer. However, there can be valid reasons to deploy

the adapter to a separate environment, for example:

 The Adapter Framework does not support the broker platform operating

system.

 There are different brokers connected to the adapter.

 The application requires the adapter to be in the same environment.

 The adapter is deployed on the partner’s environment.

 Performance-related issues (broker platform needs to be dedicated to the

broker alone).

Figure 10-1 illustrates adapter deployment possibilities.

Figure 10-1 Adapter deployment possibilities

Ethernet

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Remote Adapter

Environment

Firewall

Integration Broker and

Local Adapter Environment

Mainframe Application

Host

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Adapter Development

Environment

Distributed Adapter

Environment