Sunday, December 13, 2009

TIB/Adapter Applications and TIB/MessageBroker

custom adapter has to work together with an application-independent transformation engine to provide full adapter functionality.
  • The adapter's primary functionality is to retrieve data from and export data to a source or target application such as an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) application.
  • Transformation and routing functions are performed by a message transformation engine like TIB/MessageBroker or other transformation product.

A custom adapter created with the TIB/Adapter SDK changes the format of the data so it can be understood by a variety of other applications. Although a source application's data model can be complex, the adapter retains much of the source information and makes it easy to access.



However, a custom adapter does not change the content of the data, so two applications might still not be compatible. For example, the name and address of a customer might be stored in five fields in one ERP application and in six fields in another. This kind of content conversion must be performed by a tool like TIB/MessageBroker or a third-party, message transformation system enabled for TIB/Rendezvous.



TIB/MessageBroker transforms data and provides a graphic interface for creating and modifying data transformation rules. The adapter pushes data out of a third party application (for example SAP R/3). TIB/MessageBroker can then transform the data to formats understood by other adapters (for example TIB/Adapter for Clarify, TIB/Adapter for PeopleSoft, or custom adapters).

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