IBM WebSphere Adapters - Manual (Page 17)

IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit tasks
The tasks range from installing the toolkit, samples, and Adapter Foundation
Classes (using the Eclipse Update Manager in WebSphere Integration Developer) to
implementing and validating your code.
Table 1. WebSphere Adapter Toolkit tasks
Task Task description
Validate WebSphere Adapter Toolkit installation
requirements See the developerWorks site for WebSphere Adapter Toolkit for
hardware and software prerequisites for the toolkit and for
specific information on how to integrate the toolkit into the
version of WebSphere Integration Developer or Rational
®
Application Developer for WebSphere Software that is installed
on your system.
Note:
Make sure you select the tab for version 6.2 of the
WebSphere Adapter Toolkit.
Installing WebSphere Adapter Toolkit You do not run an installer program for the toolkit. Instead, you
bring the toolkit, the samples, and the adapter foundation classes
(including the Javadoc for the Adapter Foundation Classes and
the Javadoc for DESPI and EMD) into WebSphere Integration
Developer by launching the Eclipse Update Manager.
Access the Javadoc for the Adapter Foundation
Classes, EMD 1.1 and DESPI. To access the Javadoc, perform the following steps:
1. From the Rational Application Developer for WebSphere
Software or WebSphere Integration Developer menu, select
Help → Help Contents
2. Choose Websphere Adapter Toolkit documentation and then
select the Javadoc you want to view.
Note: To view the Javadoc for JCA 1.5, go to the download
section of the J2EE Connector Architecture site.
Using the New J2C Resource Adapter Project
wizard How to launch it, specify properties, choose generation options,
and generate classes.
Using the Resource Adapter Deployment
Descriptor editor How to launch it, display features, change and add properties,
and edit source.
Implementing code stubs A topic-by-topic guide to implementing the generated code.
Validating code How to validate your code.
Exporting the resource adapter How to export a standalone (RAR file) or embedded (EAR file)
resource adapter.
IBM WebSphere Adapter Toolkit installation requirements
The WebSphere Adapter Toolkit installation has operating system requirements and
hardware requirements.
Among the requirements are a Windows or Linux operating system and successful
installation of WebSphere Integration Developer.
Operating system requirements
Make sure that you meet the operating system requirements shown in the table.
Operating system Versions
Linux Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS/ES/WS 3 Update 4, Version 3.0
SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server (SLES and SLSS), Version 9.0
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