Step 4: Accessing the Adapter Service From the Process

After you have configured the adapter service, you can access it from the process definition. Creating a process is explained in Phase 4: Business Process Design. Once a process is part of your project, you can access adapters as follows:

Procedure 

  1. Select the process definition, then open the ActiveEnterprise Adapter palette.

    Figure 30: Adding activities that access adapter services

  2. Drag the activity that accesses the service you need into the design panel. You have the following choices:

    1. Publish to Adapter—Publishes data from the process to an adapter, which subscribes to data coming from the process and passes the data to the target application. In the example above, a Publish to Adapter activity interacts with a Siebel subscriber.

    2. Adapter Subscriber—Subscribes to incoming data published by the adapter.

    3. Invoke an Adapter Request-Response Service—Communicates (as a client) with an adapter request-response service.

    4. Adapter Request-Response Server—Starts a process based on the receipt of a request from an adapter.

    5. Respond to Adapter Request—Sends a response to an adapter for a previously received request.

    6. Wait for Adapter Message—Waits for the receipt of a message from the publication service of the specified adapter.

    7. Wait for Adapter Request—Waits for the receipt of a request from a request-response invocation service.

  3. Specify the adapter information in the configuration panel.

  4. Save your project.