About the SNA Adapter

The SNA Adapter enables the Sun Java CAPS ESB system to access an SNA network environment to drive entire transactions, including conversational transactions.

The SNA Adapter is an interface that makes calls to an SNA Server. The SNA Server acts as a high-speed gateway between distributed SNA Clients and the SNA network having a mainframe host system.

In a typical data exchange using the SNA Adapter, the Adapter invokes the LU6.2 protocol--through the invocation of CPI-C calls--to enable the SNA client to send requests to the SNA server. For outbound Adapters, the Adapter can be triggered by any incoming message. For inbound Adapters, the Adapter is triggered by established conversation activity.