Data Connector Overview
Data connectors are software components that publish a data store to OpenSpirit Runtime. Publishing a data store to OpenSpirit Runtime makes its data available to OpenSpirit enabled applications. Applications can query, create, modify, and delete data residing in the data store.
A data connector has a data source type, a data source version, and a release version. The data source type indicates the type of data store the data connector can publish (for example, OpenWorks, PPDM). The data source version indicates the version of the data store that the data connector can publish. The release version is the product version number of the OpenSpirit data connector product.
Data connectors are composed of metadata, such as data model information, unit catalogs, reference value mappings, and other information needed to publish a data store to the OpenSpirit framework. Data connectors also contain binary executable files for each operating system platform that data connector processes can be run on. The metadata and binary executable files are stored in the OpenSpirit metadata repository in the OpenSpirit master installation. The binary files must also be installed into each OpenSpirit master installation and satellite installation that is used to run data connector processes.
OpenSpirit Runtime is pre-populated with current versions of all OpenSpirit data connectors that are available at the time of OpenSpirit Runtime product release. New data connectors and updates to existing data connectors might be released after an OpenSpirit Runtime is released. The new data connector releases can be imported into your OpenSpirit Runtime's master installation and managed using the data connectors tab.