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Chapter 1 Introduction : Adapter Key Terms

Adapter Key Terms
The following key terms are used when describing adapter interactions in this manual.
A palette is a standalone adapter component that contains the screens used to gather input at design time when configuring an adapter with a service. The palette is accessed through TIBCO Designer.
A project is a collection of configured adapter resources. A project contains configuration information for one or more adapter instances. A local project is typically used at design time for testing adapter instances. For production, a project is typically managed by an administration server which is provided by TIBCO Administrator.
An .ear of an application contains global variables with values set at design time by the standalone adapter. The global variables can be changed during deployment at the application level, the service level, or the service instance level.
Service oriented architecture (SOA) is a software architecture in which applications and data are decomposed into discrete, operationally independent services, which can be executed in a highly distributed manner.
A container is an ActiveMatrix runtime entity that hosts component implementations and service bindings.
A service assembly is an ActiveMatrix deployment package. It contains service units and a descriptor that indicates the container into which each service unit is to be deployed. The suffix of a service assembly file is .saf.
The ActiveMatrix services are described in documents expressed in Web Services Description Language (WSDL). The WSDL documents specify the messages that are required to access a service.
During any service interaction, each service will adopt one of two roles: provider or consumer. A service provider publishes a WSDL document that describes the services it offers. A service consumer uses the WSDL document to determine the available services and the messages required to access the services.

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