Adapters are configured using TIBCO Designer. This section lists the high-level steps required to configure an adapter. Each of these steps is explained in detail in your adapter user’s guide.
This task is completed after installing the adapter and before configuring an adapter instance for the first time. Each adapter interoperates with its vendor application in different way. See your adapter user’s guide for details.
When starting TIBCO Designer, you create or select a project. A project contains adapter configuration information, such as the service and messaging transport to use, logging options, and other specific settings. A project is opened and saved in muti-file format, which allows a version control system to manage the files associated with the project.
By default each project you create in TIBCO Designer includes a number of global variables. Global variables provide an easy way to set defaults for use throughout your integration project. Default values are predefined for some of the variables. You can define additional variables and, optionally, set their values when configuring your adapter.
When the project is deployed and the configured adapters are run, all occurrences of the global variable name are replaced with the global variable value.
A global variable value set in TIBCO Designer can be overridden at run-time by redefining the value in TIBCO Administrator.
An adapter instance is saved in a project and contains all information needed by the run-time adapter. The following tabs are common in most adapter instances. An adapter may have more tabs available along with more options under each tab. These are explained in each adapter’s user’s guide.
An adapter supports various services: publication, subscription, request-response and request-response invocation. The services were introduced and explained on Adapter Services Examples. Each service contains the following tabs. Additional tabs may be available and are specific to each adapter service.
After you have configured an adapter instance with at least one service, the project is included in an Enterprise Archive File (EAR). An EAR is imported into TIBCO Administrator when you are ready to deploy.
A project can also be imported or exported in the following formats:
.dat
format. This format is convenient if you want to share a single file with other users. It is also included for backward compatibility. If you have installed TIBCO Administrator with the security module and the TIBCO administration domain, you can use Administrator to set security access to the projects managed by the server. At design-time, only a user who has been authorized with write privileges is allowed to save adapter instances in the project. At run-time, the adapter must use a user account set in Administrator to access the project.
If a local project is used by a run-time adapter, TIBCO Administrator security is not available.
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