Creating an Adapter Archive

If adapters are part of your project, you can create adapter archives and add them to the Enterprise archive. The following example uses a Generic Adapter Configuration. The process would be the same for an adapter.

To Add a Generic Adapter Configuration Archive

Configure the adapter.

Select the Enterprise Archive resource in the project panel. If there are any configured adapters in your project, an Adapter Archive resource becomes available in the palette panel. If you’re working in palette mode, it is located in the adapter’s palette.

Figure 47 Adding an Adapter Archive to Your Enterprise Archive

Drag the Adapter Archive into the design panel and specify information in the Configuration tab, then click Apply:

Table 10 Fields in Configuration Tab
Name	Name of the Adapter Archive.
Description	Optional description of the Adapter Archive.
Author	Optional author of the Adapter Archive.
Adapter	Click the browse button (the binoculars) and select the adapter you wish to associate with the archive. Note that you need to create a new Adapter Archive for each adapter.
Deployment Plugin	Deployment plugin class. This class must be an implementation of the com.tibco.tra.tsm.plugin.custom.CustomTSMPlugIn interface. TIBCO Administrator runs this code as part of the deployment process when it creates the .tra file. In addition to providing a pointer to this class here, you must also add a .jar file to the Shared Archive that includes the class so the class will be in the classpath.

After you have selected an adapter, the Advanced tab becomes available and you can optionally specify the following information, then click Apply.


Software Type	The type of adapter. This corresponds to the extension of the adapter project file (multi-file projects). This field is only available for Generic Adapter Configuration or for adapters that allow multiple software choices, such as the TIBCO Adapter for Tuxedo. This value must match the value set by the software’s installer or specified when custom software was added to the administration domain.
Update Version from Adapter	When you build the archive, TIBCO Designer includes the ActiveEnterprise version of the adapter associated with this archive by default. If you unselect this checkbox, you can supply a different version instead. If the box is unchecked, the deployment ActiveEnterprise version value could go out of sync with the adapter’s value (the adapter provides a button to manage the version). Warning: Supplying a different version can have serious compatibility consequences.
Minimum Version	Minimum version for the adapter. The value of this field is provided by the adapter and can be changed.

To build the archive, select the Enterprise Archive (which is one level higher in the project tree) and click the Build Archive button.