OracleAS Adapter Architecture is described in the preceding section. The diagram contains the following items:

• Adapter Clients

• EIS

• OracleAS Adapter Application Explorer, a design-time tool

• OracleAS Adapter Repository

• OracleAS Adapter, which contains:

  • Lowest level: Adapter SDK that includes EIS Libraries

  • Middle level: Channel, Port, and Repository Client

  • Upper level: Web Services (using Channel, Port and Repository Client) and J2CA (using Repository Client)

The following relationships are supported:

• Uni-directional communication from EIS to the Channel

• Bi-directional communication between EIS and EIS Libraries

• Bi-directional communication between OracleAS Adapter and Adapter Clients

• Bi-directional communication between Repository Client and OracleAS Adapter Application Explorer

• Uni-directional communication between Repository Client and OracleAS Adapter Repository