ADAPTERS

The TIBCO adapters will be acting as bi-directional gateway between external

systems and BW.
The adapters provides 4 types of services
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Publication services (Async-Communication)

Subscription services (Async-Communication)
Request/Response server service (sync-Communication)
Request/Response invocation service (sync-Communication)

Adapter Inbound services

1) Publication services
External system sends information and BW subscribes for that information.
2) Request/Response invocation service
External system sends request and BW receive that request and sends
response to External system.
Adapter Outbound services
1) Subscription services
BW sends information and external system subscribes for that information.
2) Request/Response server service
BW sends request to external system and external system receives that
request and send response to BW
Each adapter will have 3 types of configurations
1) Connectivity information
2) Transport information
3) Schema
The schema which is configuring as part of adapter service is called Active
Enterprise (AE) or AE schema.
All the adapter configurations and the schemas will be stored into AE schemas
folder of the project.
The adapter supports only JMS and RV protocols.

The transport will be configuring as part of adapter service.

Each adapter will implement the system specific native protocol. For example- The
DB adapter implements JDBC protocol.
The adapter only will be taking care of converting XML message into target
system data and source system data into XML message.
Using AE schema the adapter performs invoke (inbound) and outbound data
validations.
Only valid data will be sending to BW and to the target systems.
The adapter publication services will be polling the source system for the data.
During polling time when the adapter finds new information it will publish that
information on to the messaging BUS.
The request-response invocation services will be executing only when the request
is raised in the source system.
The adapter subscription service will enable the target system to automatically
subscribe for information.
When BW send request, the adapter sends request to the target system a method
will be executed in the target system the method response will be send to BW by
the adapter.
For the adapters 3 types of message wire format can be used.
1) Active enterprise message format
2) RV message
3) XML
For JMS transport only XML format is supported.
RV supports all three types of formats.