WebSphere Adapters for PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, JD. Edwards, and Oracle

WebSphere® Adapters provides you with a way to create integrated applications that include the exchange of information with a number of enterprise servers, including PeopleSoft, SAP, Siebel, J.D. Edwards, and Oracle.

Using the WebSphere® Adapters, client applications can send requests to the EIS (for example, to query a customer record in an EIS table or to update an order document). The adapter provides a standard interface to the applications and data on the EIS, so that the client application does not have to understand the lower-level details (the implementation of the application or the data structures) on the EIS.

Restriction: WebSphere adapters v. 6.2 are not supported to run on WebSphere Application Server, v8.0.

WebSphere Adapters complies with the Java™ Connector Architecture (JCA). JCA standardizes the way application components, application servers, and enterprise information systems, such as an EIS, interact with each other. WebSphere Adapters makes it possible for JCA-compliant application servers, such as WebSphere Application Server, to connect to and interact with the EIS. Client applications running on the JCA-compliant server can then communicate with the EIS in a standard way using business objects represented as Java data bindings.

Suppose a company uses EIS Software to coordinate most of its business operations. EIS includes a business function that returns a list of customers in response to a range of customer IDs. A client application might be able to use this function as part of an overall business application. For example, the promotions department within the company sends advertising material to customers, and, as part of that process, needs to first obtain a list of customers.

With the WebSphere Adapters Software, you can automatically generate an interface to the EIS function to hide the lower-level details of the function. The adapter is used by the client application that is deployed to WebSphere Application Server. The client application interacts with the tools-generated component, J2C bean instead of with the EIS function.

The J2C bean, which you generate with the J2C bean wizard, provides an interface exposing EIS function to the application. The data is exposed as business objects represented using Java data bindings, which are also generated by J2C tools.


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