Adapter Node
An adapter node is a runtime entity that hosts adapter applications for execution.
An app space contains one or more adapter nodes. If you deploy an application to an app space, the adapter application is automatically deployed to the adapter nodes that are contained in the app space. When adapter nodes are added to an app space, more processing capacity becomes available for the deployed application to handle a higher load of requests.
If you stop an adapter node, all the adapter applications running on the adapter node are stopped. However, if you start an adapter node, the deployed adapter application might not be started. It depends on the aggregated state of an adapter application. If the aggregated state is computed to start, that is, the adapter application is running on minimum number of the adapter nodes that it is required to run on, the adapter application is started when you start the adapter node; if the aggregated state is computed to stop, the adapter application is not started when you start the adapter node.
For more details, see Managing Adapter Nodes.
