Activities for Communicating with Adapter Services

The Adapter palette contains activities for communicating with configured adapter services.

For more information on when and how to use these activities, see TIBCO ActiveMatrix Adapter Framework Reference.

The following table lists the adapter services and associated activities in the Adapter palette.

Adapter Service	Associated Activities	Description
Publication Service	Adapter Subscriber	(Process Starter) Starts a process based on the receipt of a message from Publication Service of the specified adapter. Note: Process Starters are activities used to start a process when an event occurs. When a process starter is placed into a process definition, it replaces the default Start activity, and becomes the first activity in the process. Note: Timer, File Poller, and any of the process starter activities are activities used to start a process when an event occurs.
Publication Service	Wait for Adapter Message	Waits for the receipt of a message from Publication Service of the specified adapter.
Subscription Service	Publish to Adapter	Publishes a message received by Subscription Service of the specified adapter.
Request-Response Service	Invoke an Adapter Request-Response Server	(RPC Mode) Communicates as a client with Request-Response Service of the specified adapter.
Request-Response Service	Publish to Adapter	(Request-Reply Mode) Publishes a message received by Subscription Service of the specified adapter.