WebSphere® Business Integration is the IBM® business integration solution for process integration, workforce management, and enterprise application connectivity. WebSphere Business Integration helps you to create and deploy new business processes, synchronize business information in multiple business applications on diverse platforms, and transform message formats en-route between applications.

This IBM Redbooks publication takes you through the full life cycle of an adapter development project, from design considerations, building, and testing through deployment and implementation on multiple broker types (using both an out-of-the-box technology adapter and the custom adapter for our development project).

For this book, we designed a scenario that mirrors many of the issues that real-life integration projects can face. The scenario starts by integrating custom enterprise applications. It then integrates those applications into the business-to-business world by extending the infrastructure. Finally, it adds a human interaction component which determines whether to take the internal route or external route (via trading partners) to application integration. Using many of the components within the WebSphere Business Integration family of products, this book includes a range of integration options that are available to implement this scenario.

Part 1. Adapter development: The theory

Chapter 1. Adapter development

Chapter 2. Business objects

Chapter 3. Object Discovery Agents

Chapter 4. Agent initialization and termination

Chapter 5. Data handlers and name handlers

Chapter 6. Business object handlers

Chapter 7. Connector configuration properties

Chapter 8. Asynchronous event processing and notification

Chapter 9. Synchronous event processing (callback)

Chapter 10. Local versus remote deployment

Chapter 11. Component deployment

Part 2. Developing our custom adapter

Chapter 12. Setting up the development environment

Chapter 13. Adapter design and environment

Chapter 14. Object Discovery Agent

Chapter 15. Initializing and terminating the adapter agent

Chapter 16. Implementing a business object handler

Chapter 17. Implementing event notification

Chapter 18. Polling for events

Part 3. Setting up applications for our scenario

Chapter 19. Overview of our scenario and applications

Chapter 20. Installing and configuring the scenario infrastructure

Part 4. Configuring and testing adapters and business objects

Chapter 21. Creating the business objects and connector

Chapter 22. Object Discovery Agent

Chapter 23. Packaging the custom adapter for distribution

Chapter 24. Unit testing the connector

Part 5. Message Broker components

Chapter 25. Deploying business objects to the Message Broker

Chapter 26. Building and testing message flow for Retrieve

Chapter 27. Building and testing message flows for Create

Chapter 28. Building and testing message flow for Update

Part 6. Business-to-business components

Chapter 29. Integrating external contractors using WebSphere BI Connect

Part 7. Server Foundation components

Chapter 30. Adding human interaction using WebSphere BI Server Foundation

Chapter 31. Integrating and automating the process

Part 8. Looking after the run-time environment

Chapter 32. Gathering data from the run-time

Appendix A. Unit test traces

Appendix B. Additional material