IBM WebSphere® Adapter Toolkit enables customers and business partners to develop custom J2EE™ Connector Architecture (JCA) adapters to meet unique business requirements. The toolkit helps to create either a basic JCA 1.5 adapter, or an adapter which leverages the additional capabilities of the Adapter Foundation Classes utilized by WebSphere Adapters. The Eclipse-based toolkit includes the following:
A wizard to create an adapter project including the Java™ code stubs for the appropriate adapter classes.
The Adapter Foundation Classes which provide a consistent implementation for WebSphere Adapters based on JCA 1.5.
A graphical Resource Adapter Deployment Descriptor Editor to ease creation and modification of the XML deployment descriptor file.
A sample adapter and its associated enterprise application are provided with source. The sample adapter leverages the Adapter Foundation Classes and implements the Enterprise Metadata Discovery (EMD) specification for wizard-driven configuration and the Service Data Objects (SDO) specification for exchanging data.
IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit is provided as a no-fee download from IBM developerWorks to customers and business partners who secure licenses to WebSphere Integration Developer and Rational® Application Developer. To access WebSphere Adapter Toolkit, visit IBM developerWorks.
