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Step 2: Setting up the Design-Time Adapter

The TIBCO Designer GUI allows you to connect with the source or target application for the adapter at design time using a design-time adapter. After you have established design-time connection parameters, you can use the TIBCO Designer GUI to specify schema information from the adapter.

To set up the design-time adapter, follow these steps:

1.	Launch the TIBCO Designer GUI.

The appropriate adapter palettes should now be included.

2.	Select the adapter palette and drag an adapter resource from the palette panel into the design panel and name the adapter service.

Figure 15 shows how you would drag a Siebel Adapter Configuration into the design panel. The adapter service has been named SiebelPublisher.

Figure 15 Adding an adapter to the project

3.	Specify connection information for the application you want to access so your design-time adapter can connect.

4.	In the project tree panel, double-click the adapter, then select its Adapter Services folder to open it.

In the palette panel, the Services palette is displayed.

5.	Drag an adapter service, for example, a publication service, from the palette panel into the design panel.

The configuration panel is updated to allow you to configure the service.

Figure 16 Adding a service to an adapter

6.	From a command prompt, start the design-time adapter.

7.	Specify the data the adapter should publish or subscribe to interactively.

8.	Save the adapter.

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