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| j1 |
 Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 12:44 pm Post subject: Basic Adapter/Connector Question |
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Centurion
Joined: 23 Jun 2003
Posts: 139
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Hi All,
I have a pretty basic question regd. adapters/connectors. Why is it required to have a broker/ics/wps peice for the adapter to talk to. dont the adapters themselves transform from a specific format (say SAP idoc) to a xml format we define in the adapter. Can these xml messages then be just routed over an MQ cluster to a receiving end where they are transformed back into a different format if required by a different adapter. |
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| vk |
| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 2:04 pm Post subject: |
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Partisan
Joined: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 302
Location: Houston
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You can do that if -
- You dont have to do much conversion between source and destination formats (Not many transformation rules)
- You dont have to do much validation
- You dont have to treats fields of the same data type differently (Different justification, padding charcaters etc)
- No database access
If the source and target applications are not MQ compliant and then the ideal architecture will be broker in between and adapters at both ends. With MB6, the broker itself can talk to non-MQ applications.
Regards,
VK. |
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| j1 |
| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:30 am Post subject: |
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Centurion
Joined: 23 Jun 2003
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| right, but the adapters themselves have the capability to transfor from the app specific format to XML and put to an MQ Queue right ? |
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| RocknRambo |
| Posted: Tue Nov 07, 2006 7:57 am Post subject: |
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Partisan
Joined: 24 Sep 2003
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The main reason the adapter config file requires the broker type is... - based on that, additional properties of the configuration file are displayed.
trying toggeling different broker type (ICS/WMQI/WAS) in any .cfg file (opened in framework) you might notice the properties and tabs would differ. |
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| CuriCAT |
| Posted: Sun Nov 12, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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Voyager
Joined: 26 Sep 2006
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some more points would like to add:
1. When you need to send the same message to number of applications in different formats.
2. When you need to publish the message instead of connect directly to the applicaiton
If all these features(as vk said) are provided by the adapter.. you can better keep those features in the centrel where those features can be used by number of other applications and can be customisable.. and keep the adapter as simple as possible.
Sounds better ha? |
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